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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... whole a more complex and problematic atmosphere . Virgil follows it in the Second with something rather simpler : an unhappy lover sits and bewails his plight to the rustic scenery . Theocritean models are clear . But here too something ...
... whole a more complex and problematic atmosphere . Virgil follows it in the Second with something rather simpler : an unhappy lover sits and bewails his plight to the rustic scenery . Theocritean models are clear . But here too something ...
Page 57
... whole career was illegal , whose first act had been to raise an army and march on Rome , who had signed the lists which proscribed innocent citizens , committed unforgotten crimes in the civil wars and climbed to tyranny over the bodies ...
... whole career was illegal , whose first act had been to raise an army and march on Rome , who had signed the lists which proscribed innocent citizens , committed unforgotten crimes in the civil wars and climbed to tyranny over the bodies ...
Page 98
... whole world and their sons ' sons , and those who are born of them ' ( 3.97f . ) . The destiny of Rome , says Jupiter , is to put the whole world under its laws ( totum sub leges mitteret orbem [ 4.231 ] ; see also 6.781f . , 7.98ff ...
... whole world and their sons ' sons , and those who are born of them ' ( 3.97f . ) . The destiny of Rome , says Jupiter , is to put the whole world under its laws ( totum sub leges mitteret orbem [ 4.231 ] ; see also 6.781f . , 7.98ff ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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