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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Aeneas"”.
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THE 'ENTENTE' OF THE NARRATOR: A POET SPEAKS TO HIS AUDIENCE IN CHAUCER'S VERSIONS OF THE DIDO AND AENEAS LEGEND
… versions of the classical love story of Dido and Aeneas. Each story is told through the voice of a well-developed narrator who regularly interrupts his narration to speak to an audience addressed in the poem. This study investigates the relationships between the narrator and his addressed audience …
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Mapping a Late Antique Republic of Letters
… a study of how the letters of Procopius of Gaza, Aeneas of Gaza, Synesius of Cyrene, and Isidore of Pelusium, created circuits of intellectual sociability and exchange transcending the territorial limits of Empire and thereby affirmed their participation in a common culture of Learning. The …
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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
… and contemplating the harrows of their journey, Aeneas entreats his companions to stay resolute in their search for a New Troy, offering the hope that despite their challenges and suffering, “perhaps one day it will help to remember even these things.” Fundamentally, via organic contours and …
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Quid restat profugis? Exile and power in Silius Italicus’ Punica
… by a morally excellent outsider like pius Aeneas. Rather, the Roman center has become a place of corruption, a city that forces its morally outstanding citizens to become outsiders, exiles. By creating new Romanized space and incorporating new peoples, the edges define most clearly the …
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Burn: A Novel
… childhood lacked. Angie is an interpretation of Aeneas as a traumatic hero, and as such, she continually tries to revise her history and rewrite it. Burn begins with Angie's adolescent proclamation of love for her best friend, Margaret, and throughout the difficulties of her life, Angie attempts …
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The theme of Marlowe's tragedies : thirst for power.
… It appears in various forms: in Dido, it is Aeneas' love of fame and glory; in Tamburlaine, it is the Scythian shepherd's aspiration to conquer dominions; in Faustus, it is a scholar's yearning for supernatural power through knowledge; in The Jew of Malta, it is Barabas' desire to sway …
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Perceptions of divinity : the changing characters of Roman Venus.
… in significance through her connection with Aeneas, whilst during the Principate her popularity enabled her to be used in support of Augustan values.
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… is in keeping with the surroundings found by Aeneas at his true destination, Pallanteum. The ideal matrona with her wool and costume seems implicit in the Aeneid, though she might well remain an ideal rather than a reality in Augustan society.
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Weeping and <i>Virtus</i> in Early Imperial Roman Epic
… In Vergil’s <em>Aeneid</em>, I argue that Aeneas learns how to weep like a Roman man over the course of the epic. At the beginning of the epic, he weeps like a Homeric hero; by the end of the epic, he is demonstrating the self-control of a Roman general or politician. Lucan’s <em>Bellum …
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Characterization in the dramatic works of Hector Berlioz
… dramaturgical role. In the opera Les Troyens Aeneas is characterized as a fully rounded and complex person. Music takes an active part in the unfolding of Aeneas's development, as he assumes leadership; in each phase of his development, in intimate situations or in authoritative ones, Berlioz …
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Heroes, saints, and gods: Foundation legends and propaganda in ancient and Renaissance Rome
<p>The paper investigates the way in which Roman leaders, during the classical and Renaissance periods, used foundation myths as a form of persona l propaganda. It shows that men like Julius Caesar used the supposed founders of the city to promote their own claims to power through art and …