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... Turnus , Virgil brings the Homeric ideal back into a steadier focus . More than any other character in the Aeneid , Turnus resembles Achilles . In fact , in one place , Virgil calls him another Achilles . The Cumaean Sybil tells Aeneas ...
... Turnus , Virgil brings the Homeric ideal back into a steadier focus . More than any other character in the Aeneid , Turnus resembles Achilles . In fact , in one place , Virgil calls him another Achilles . The Cumaean Sybil tells Aeneas ...
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... Turnus in the midst of his troops . . . ipse inter primos praestanti corpore Turnus vertitur arma tenens et toto vertice supra est . 7.783-84 Himself too among the foremost , splendid in beauty of body , Turnus moves armed and towers a ...
... Turnus in the midst of his troops . . . ipse inter primos praestanti corpore Turnus vertitur arma tenens et toto vertice supra est . 7.783-84 Himself too among the foremost , splendid in beauty of body , Turnus moves armed and towers a ...
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... Turnus in the comparison . The vivid abstraction , " and on his Crest / Sat horror Plum'd " distils the essence of Virgil's striking image of the horrible , snakelike Chimaera , " breathing from her throat Aet- nean flames , " which ...
... Turnus in the comparison . The vivid abstraction , " and on his Crest / Sat horror Plum'd " distils the essence of Virgil's striking image of the horrible , snakelike Chimaera , " breathing from her throat Aet- nean flames , " which ...
Contents
Chapter One FIT AUDIENCE | 1 |
Chapter Two NOT LESS BUT MORE HEROIC ས ༤ | 40 |
Chapter Four THE VEIL OF INNOCENCE | 67 |
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Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition editors English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. numbers Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus