History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age ...E. Littell, 1827 - Latin literature |
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... stage had ever reached higher than extemporary recitations , or pantomimic entertainments of music and dancing . But whatever the literature of the Etruscans may have been , it certainly had no influence on the progress of learning ...
... stage had ever reached higher than extemporary recitations , or pantomimic entertainments of music and dancing . But whatever the literature of the Etruscans may have been , it certainly had no influence on the progress of learning ...
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... stage , the ancient mummeries of the satires , and composed dramas on that regu- lar elaborate plan , which was reckoned worthy of imitation by Plautus- " Dicitur Plautus ad exemplar Siculi properare Epicharmi * . ” Dionysius , the ...
... stage , the ancient mummeries of the satires , and composed dramas on that regu- lar elaborate plan , which was reckoned worthy of imitation by Plautus- " Dicitur Plautus ad exemplar Siculi properare Epicharmi * . ” Dionysius , the ...
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... stage during the most refined periods of taste and lite- rature . The popularity of Livius increasing from these perform- ances , as well as from a propitiatory hymn he had composed , and which had been followed by great public success ...
... stage during the most refined periods of taste and lite- rature . The popularity of Livius increasing from these perform- ances , as well as from a propitiatory hymn he had composed , and which had been followed by great public success ...
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... stage * . The drama of Ennius was taken from a tragedy of Euripides , which is now lost , but its subject is well known from the Thebaid of Statius . The soothsayer Amphiaraus , foreseeing that he would perish at the siege of Thebes ...
... stage * . The drama of Ennius was taken from a tragedy of Euripides , which is now lost , but its subject is well known from the Thebaid of Statius . The soothsayer Amphiaraus , foreseeing that he would perish at the siege of Thebes ...
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... stage in tattered garments . The passages of the Latin play which remain , exhibit Telephus as an exile from his kingdom , wan- dering about in ragged habiliments . The lines of Horace , in his Art of Poetry , ( a work which is devoted ...
... stage in tattered garments . The passages of the Latin play which remain , exhibit Telephus as an exile from his kingdom , wan- dering about in ragged habiliments . The lines of Horace , in his Art of Poetry , ( a work which is devoted ...
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