Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State. From short pastoral poems on love and song he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. "The Aeneid", immediately recognised as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature, has had incalculable influence on European literature in the two thousand years since it was first published.
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You are far from home ( if only I could disbelieve such a thing ) , looking on the snowy Alps and frozen Rhine : O ... of the pleasure of the work , which is , of course , among other things , a tremendous compliment to his friend .
For a farm of 160 acres he lists more than ninety types of items including such things as 8 forks , 8 hoes , 4 spades , 5 shovels , 2 rakes , 8 scythes , 5 straw - hooks , 5 pruning - hooks , 3 axes , 3 wedges , etc.
He turns to a more evidently emotional style , asking the Muse , in the traditional way , to tell him about things which are not accessible to mortal inspection . Here he presses the question in an untraditional direction : how can a ...
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Rome and Arcadia
the Muse in hobnails
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome
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