VirgilVirgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State. From short pastoral poems on love and song he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. "The Aeneid", immediately recognised as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature, has had incalculable influence on European literature in the two thousand years since it was first published. |
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... passionate lyrics or versified jokes ; and on the other fairly substantial works - 400 lines or so of exquisite polish ... passion- ately advocated the philosophy of Epicurus . - - When Virgil began to write , poetry at Rome might well ...
... passionate lyrics or versified jokes ; and on the other fairly substantial works - 400 lines or so of exquisite polish ... passion- ately advocated the philosophy of Epicurus . - - When Virgil began to write , poetry at Rome might well ...
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... passion , that of Corydon for the boy Alexis who is the favourite of his master . Corydon is in the country , the boy apparently in the town ; even beyond that , the social situation of the two , in any case , means that this love is ...
... passion , that of Corydon for the boy Alexis who is the favourite of his master . Corydon is in the country , the boy apparently in the town ; even beyond that , the social situation of the two , in any case , means that this love is ...
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... passion : a , virgo infelix , quae te dementia cepit ? Alas , poor maid , what madness has enthralled you ? And a little later ( 6.52 ) : ( 6.47 ) Alas , poor maid , you are straying over the hills , but his snow- white flank reposes on ...
... passion : a , virgo infelix , quae te dementia cepit ? Alas , poor maid , what madness has enthralled you ? And a little later ( 6.52 ) : ( 6.47 ) Alas , poor maid , you are straying over the hills , but his snow- white flank reposes on ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
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