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... less instructive than those where judgment is not straightforward . Let us turn our attention to episodes where we can feel that the poet wishes us to perceive behind the act of self- sacrifice something more than Phegeus ' empty ...
... less instructive than those where judgment is not straightforward . Let us turn our attention to episodes where we can feel that the poet wishes us to perceive behind the act of self- sacrifice something more than Phegeus ' empty ...
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... less readily to Turnus than it did to Mezentius.1 The desire to kill is a necessary component of the hero . But , while it must therefore normally win from us something approaching approval , it can also take an ugly twist . Nisus feels ...
... less readily to Turnus than it did to Mezentius.1 The desire to kill is a necessary component of the hero . But , while it must therefore normally win from us something approaching approval , it can also take an ugly twist . Nisus feels ...
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... less certain , or less obvious - compare Arthur Miller's The Crucible . In a more general sense , Macbeth , Othello , Tartuffe and many other plays deal with situations which prompt questions about what was the right thing to do or the ...
... less certain , or less obvious - compare Arthur Miller's The Crucible . In a more general sense , Macbeth , Othello , Tartuffe and many other plays deal with situations which prompt questions about what was the right thing to do or the ...
Contents
FORM AND TECHNIQUE | 277 |
Difference in Attitude between Virgil and Homer | 284 |
Impure Poetry | 293 |
Copyright | |
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Achilles action Actium Aeneadae Aeneas Aeneid Amata ambiguity Anchises arma Ascanius atque Augustus battle begins Book 12 caesura Camilla Carthage Catullus Chapter character context course Creusa dative death of Pallas described detail Dido Dido's divine dramatic Drances duel echo Ennius epic Episode Evander example exploitation fairy-tale fate feel fighting follows function gods Greek Hector Helenus heroic historic present Homer horse Iliad impulse irony Italian Italy Iuturna Jove Juno killed Latin Latin Explorations Lausus less lines Lucretius Mackail meaning Messapus Mezentius Mnestheus narrative night Nisus and Euryalus nunc Palinurus Pallas passage perhaps phrase poem poet poetry Priam prophecy prose quae reaction reader rhetoric Roman scene Section sense Servius shield ships Sibyl simile situation spear speech story structure style Suetonius sword syntactical syntax Tableau Tarchon technique tell tense things tradition Tragic Trojan camp Troy Turnus Venus Vignette Virgil words