The Roman poets of the Augustan age

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The Roman poets of the Augustan age

Virgil ; by W.Y. Sellar

Clarendon Press, 1877

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Contents of Works

  • General introduction
  • Virgil's place in Roman literature
  • Life and personal characteristics of Virgil
  • The Eclogues
  • Motives, form, substance, and sources of the Georgics
  • Relation of the Georgics to the poem of Lucretius
  • The Georgics: a poem representative of Italy
  • The Roman epic before the time of Virgil
  • Form and subject of the Aeneid
  • The Aeneid as the epic of the Roman empire
  • The Aeneid as an epic poem of human life

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  • NCID
    BA16640457
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 413 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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