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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It was to turn out that Rome would take a unique course – not that of simple surrender to Greek superiority , nor that of pretending that Greek literature did not exist or presented no problem , but the heroic task of creating in Latin ...
It was to turn out that Rome would take a unique course – not that of simple surrender to Greek superiority , nor that of pretending that Greek literature did not exist or presented no problem , but the heroic task of creating in Latin ...
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The grossest flattery to Augustus that could be invented : the turn of mind in it is as mean as the poetry in it is noble ' , commented Alexander Pope . I suggested above that the hyperbole is , at least in part , an expression of ...
The grossest flattery to Augustus that could be invented : the turn of mind in it is as mean as the poetry in it is noble ' , commented Alexander Pope . I suggested above that the hyperbole is , at least in part , an expression of ...
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... own sons and the first hero of the Republic is to be pitied , whatever posterity has to say . Then ( A 6.826ff . ) Caesar and Pompey appear : ' Don't do it , my sons ! Don't wage civil war and turn your country's strength against ...
... own sons and the first hero of the Republic is to be pitied , whatever posterity has to say . Then ( A 6.826ff . ) Caesar and Pompey appear : ' Don't do it , my sons ! Don't wage civil war and turn your country's strength against ...
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Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Virgil Ancients in Action |
| Author | Jasper Griffin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 1853996262, 9781853996269 |
| Length | 120 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Poetry / Ancient & Classical |
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