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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... early philosophical dialogues, the Confessions, and the prose epic De civitate del. Throughout his long life, Augustine returned to Vergil as one of a handful of authors who defined what was worth understanding and why, and he used ...
... early philosophical dialogues, the Confessions, and the prose epic De civitate del. Throughout his long life, Augustine returned to Vergil as one of a handful of authors who defined what was worth understanding and why, and he used ...
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... early philosophical dialogues , the Confessiones , and the prose epic De civitate dei . Throughout his long life , Augustine returned to Vergil as one of a handful of authors who defined what was worth understanding and why , and he ...
... early philosophical dialogues , the Confessiones , and the prose epic De civitate dei . Throughout his long life , Augustine returned to Vergil as one of a handful of authors who defined what was worth understanding and why , and he ...
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... people . Some readers , most notably Dante in the early fourteenth century , followed by numerous scholars of our own time , have discovered in Vergil a validation and even a eulogy of Preface xvii I: "Their Renowned Poet"
... people . Some readers , most notably Dante in the early fourteenth century , followed by numerous scholars of our own time , have discovered in Vergil a validation and even a eulogy of Preface xvii I: "Their Renowned Poet"
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... early commentaries on Vergil and related materials , see Martin Irvine , The Making of Textual Culture . " Grammatica " and Literary Theory 350-1100 ; Theodore Ziolkowski , Virgil and the Moderns ; for the scholarly reception of Vergil ...
... early commentaries on Vergil and related materials , see Martin Irvine , The Making of Textual Culture . " Grammatica " and Literary Theory 350-1100 ; Theodore Ziolkowski , Virgil and the Moderns ; for the scholarly reception of Vergil ...
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... earliest forms of human culture and society , and going on , in the Georgics , to agriculture and thence , in the Aeneid , to warfare and the foundation of cities.19 Vergil wrote with much care and reflection . When working on the ...
... earliest forms of human culture and society , and going on , in the Georgics , to agriculture and thence , in the Aeneid , to warfare and the foundation of cities.19 Vergil wrote with much care and reflection . When working on the ...
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 |
Index of Ancient and Late Antique Texts | 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.
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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.
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