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... detail was regular , even at the expense of proportion . The similes , for instance , are Hellenistic rather than Homeric , depicting the minute particulars of a scene or displaying the poet's command of mythological lore ; they often ...
... detail was regular , even at the expense of proportion . The similes , for instance , are Hellenistic rather than Homeric , depicting the minute particulars of a scene or displaying the poet's command of mythological lore ; they often ...
Page 71
... detail ( Austin ( 1977 ) ad loc .; and cf. Aeneid 11.64ff .; 184ff . ) . Virgil's description gives evidence for the most elaborate kind of Roman funeral ceremony . It looks back to Homer's funeral of Patroclus ( Iliad 23.109ff . ) but ...
... detail ( Austin ( 1977 ) ad loc .; and cf. Aeneid 11.64ff .; 184ff . ) . Virgil's description gives evidence for the most elaborate kind of Roman funeral ceremony . It looks back to Homer's funeral of Patroclus ( Iliad 23.109ff . ) but ...
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... detail ( 87-117 ) ; she rouses him to cause the army inside Thebes to fall asleep and relax their guard ( 118-136 ) ; he does so in this extract which recalls those beautiful lines of Virgil ( Aeneid 4.522-528 see Appendix passage r ...
... detail ( 87-117 ) ; she rouses him to cause the army inside Thebes to fall asleep and relax their guard ( 118-136 ) ; he does so in this extract which recalls those beautiful lines of Virgil ( Aeneid 4.522-528 see Appendix passage r ...
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