The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of AugustineImperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers us new insights into the exercise of power and into the social, political, and cultural significance of religious change during the Christianization of the Roman world. |
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... continued to hold my attention for so long precisely because it does not allow simple answers . In writing during these same years about the cultural and reli- gious changes that engulfed the empire of the Incas after the Spanish in ...
... continued to hold my attention for so long precisely because it does not allow simple answers . In writing during these same years about the cultural and reli- gious changes that engulfed the empire of the Incas after the Spanish in ...
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... continued being read and loved by many people . An almost continuous sequence of manu- scripts links the Vergil of Augustine's Roman Empire to the poet who was studied and quoted in subsequent centuries . This long tradition , with its ...
... continued being read and loved by many people . An almost continuous sequence of manu- scripts links the Vergil of Augustine's Roman Empire to the poet who was studied and quoted in subsequent centuries . This long tradition , with its ...
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... continued to remember the words of the " renowned poet , " the " most noble poet , " with whom he now profoundly disagreed , but who remained unforgettable nonetheless . This long relationship between the Roman poet and the Christian ...
... continued to remember the words of the " renowned poet , " the " most noble poet , " with whom he now profoundly disagreed , but who remained unforgettable nonetheless . This long relationship between the Roman poet and the Christian ...
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... continued what Vergil had said about himself at the end of the Georgics : I am he who once composed my song on a slender reed pipe , then left the forests to master the neighboring fields so that they yielded to the eager husbandman , a ...
... continued what Vergil had said about himself at the end of the Georgics : I am he who once composed my song on a slender reed pipe , then left the forests to master the neighboring fields so that they yielded to the eager husbandman , a ...
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Contents
xvii | |
The Scent of a Rose Language and Grammar between Pagans and Christians | 41 |
The Tears Run Down in Vain Emotions Soul and Body | 85 |
Gods of Our Homeland The Nature of True and False Worship | 128 |
The High Walls of Rome The City on Earth and the Heavenly City | 171 |
Epilogue | 221 |
Select Bibliography | 229 |
247 | |
General Index | 251 |
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Page 5 - Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus et frater, sic fortis Etruria crevit scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces.
Page 1 - Olympo. Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat Parthenope, studiis florentem ignobilis oti, Carmina qui lusi pastorum audaxque iuventa, 565 Tityre, te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi.