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The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil

by W. Y. Sellar

Level C1 · AdvancedHistoricalPoetry15 chapters
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About this book

Explore the rich literary world of the Augustan Age, tracing Virgil’s life and poetry within the transformative era from the Republic’s fall to the rise of the Empire, revealing the cultural and historical forces shaping Rome’s greatest poets.

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Contents

15 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
03General Introduction.
04Virgil’s place in Roman Literature.
05Life and Personal Characteristics of Virgil.
06The Eclogues.
07Motives, Form, National Interest, and Sources of the Georgics.
08Structure and Composition of the Poem, in Relation To the Poem of Lucretius.
09The Georgics as the representative poem of Italy.
10The Roman Epic before the time of Virgil.
11Form and Subject of the Aeneid.
12The Aeneid As the Epic of the Roman Empire.

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