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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... seen his will tell us that he left the very large sum of ten million sesterces , with substantial legacies to Maecenas and Augustus . No doubt this represented the return of some of the money to its source . From now on it seems that ...
... seen his will tell us that he left the very large sum of ten million sesterces , with substantial legacies to Maecenas and Augustus . No doubt this represented the return of some of the money to its source . From now on it seems that ...
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Jasper Griffin. Chapter 4 The Aeneid and the myth of Rome We have seen that Augustus , like other Roman grandees , naturally aspired to have his achievements immortalised in verse . His mastery of propaganda was one of his greatest ...
Jasper Griffin. Chapter 4 The Aeneid and the myth of Rome We have seen that Augustus , like other Roman grandees , naturally aspired to have his achievements immortalised in verse . His mastery of propaganda was one of his greatest ...
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... seen in the archi- tecture and the sculpture of the period a self - conscious striving , with success , for grandeur of style and form . - - It is reasonable to suppose that Virgil did give some thought to doing what he seemed to ...
... seen in the archi- tecture and the sculpture of the period a self - conscious striving , with success , for grandeur of style and form . - - It is reasonable to suppose that Virgil did give some thought to doing what he seemed to ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
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