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Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: Brooks Otis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tra
Ovid As An Epic Poet
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Brooks Otis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Charles Martindale
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature
Aeneid
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Virgil
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-12 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Ingo Gildenhard
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-p