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Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire, and in his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual and the State. From short pastoral poems he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, recognized as the greatest masterpiece...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0192876554
ISBN13:9780192876553
Release Date:December 1986
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:112 Pages
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