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Page 275
... story of bloodshed and crime ( 10.497 : impressum nefas ) , a scene from legend , or perhaps a series of scenes ( 10.499 : quae ) , from the story of the daughters of Danaus : there were fifty of them , and they married the fifty sons ...
... story of bloodshed and crime ( 10.497 : impressum nefas ) , a scene from legend , or perhaps a series of scenes ( 10.499 : quae ) , from the story of the daughters of Danaus : there were fifty of them , and they married the fifty sons ...
Page 324
... story of Dido is as strictly tragic in form as it is in spirit , it is in a somewhat different sense that the story of Turnus is com- monly spoken of as tragic.1 For obviously , if the story is spread over six books , is not continuous ...
... story of Dido is as strictly tragic in form as it is in spirit , it is in a somewhat different sense that the story of Turnus is com- monly spoken of as tragic.1 For obviously , if the story is spread over six books , is not continuous ...
Page 328
... story . This is the tension kind of suspense . After the murder the puzzling , reflective kind of suspense can begin : the reader is invited to work out , from the clues provided , how the story will end . Careless readers of course ...
... story . This is the tension kind of suspense . After the murder the puzzling , reflective kind of suspense can begin : the reader is invited to work out , from the clues provided , how the story will end . Careless readers of course ...
Contents
FORM AND TECHNIQUE | 277 |
Difference in Attitude between Virgil and Homer | 284 |
Impure Poetry | 293 |
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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