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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... verse , the poetic form helping to make it memorable in the minds of unlettered people . Some of the pre - Socratic phi- losophers in the early fifth century BC still wrote in verse . But the rise and triumph of prose , the great event ...
... verse , the poetic form helping to make it memorable in the minds of unlettered people . Some of the pre - Socratic phi- losophers in the early fifth century BC still wrote in verse . But the rise and triumph of prose , the great event ...
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... verse . It was Lucretius , the great and isolated Latin poet of the generation before Virgil , who put new and unexpected life into this withering form . His poem On the Nature of the Universe embodied a programme which might have ...
... verse . It was Lucretius , the great and isolated Latin poet of the generation before Virgil , who put new and unexpected life into this withering form . His poem On the Nature of the Universe embodied a programme which might have ...
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... verse is used by Virgil with great finesse . In Latin verse it could easily get out of hand , and there are lines of Ennius , for instance , which have toppled over into the comical . Virgil generally avoids obtrusive effects though ...
... verse is used by Virgil with great finesse . In Latin verse it could easily get out of hand , and there are lines of Ennius , for instance , which have toppled over into the comical . Virgil generally avoids obtrusive effects though ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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