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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Vergil"”.
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Friendships and family ties in Vergil
<p>In choosing a subject for a thesis in the Vergilian Bimillennium, it was only natural and fitting that the choice should fall in the field of Vergil. The difficulty lay in selecting a particular locality of the field that had not been especially explored by the many Vergil admirers.</p><p> …
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"Studies in Allusion in the ""Eclogues"" of Vergil"
"Vergil has ""analyzed"" the corpus of Theocritus by using only the bucolic Idylls and reworking them; there is not a one to one correspondence between individual Idylls and Eclogues. In the Aeneid, Vergil takes a single author as a primary model and analyzes his works, using them to create …
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Katabaseis von Vergil bis Apuleius – eine Reise in die römische Unterwelt?
… Analyse verschiedener fiktionaler Texte von Vergil bis Apuleius auf Grundlage der Terminologie vorgenommen, die Dennerlein in "Narratologie des Raumes" zusammenstellt. Dabei wird die Frage geklärt, inwieweit von der einen römischen Unterwelt gesprochen werden kann. Allgemeingültige Aspekte …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… the classical portrayals found in the works of Vergil, Lucan, and Suetonius. Each author's interpretation of Caesar was also impacted by the political and intellectual milieu in which he flourished. Analysis of Caesar's image over this time period serves not only as a part of Caesar …
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<i>Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?</i> The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the <i>Paschale carmen</i>
… Carmen</i>. In particular, it focuses on Vergilian reception by Christian and non-Christian writers of the fourth and fifth centuries to elucidate some of the great number of possible approaches to Vergil’s poetry in Late Antiquity. Not only did the variety of approaches that are examined …
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UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS IN CLASSICAL LATIN: THE PROBLEM WITH PIUS
… which Christians used it. The poets Catullus and Vergil and the historian Livy are the chief sources for this analysis.
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… chronicle history of Edward Hall and Polydore Vergil, the political histories of Thomas More and Francis Bacon, and the Protestant martyrology of John Foxe, to the canonical Shakespearean works and lesser-known dramas that comprised the history play genre, most popular in the 1590s but written …
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Experiencing Color in the Indo-European World: A Literary and Linguistic Approach
… antiquity—Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (Greek) and Vergil’s Aeneid (Latin). Investigation of the former includes discussion of ancient aesthetics, perception, and cognition, and argues for a multisensory, emotional, and kinetic reading of Homer’s color terms. The latter examines colorful moments in …
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Quid restat profugis? Exile and power in Silius Italicus’ Punica
… imperial space. Writing roughly a century after Vergil, empire for Silius is no longer something that needs to be established 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 …
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Women in Statius' Thebaid
… the epic also make their voices heard. Vergil also presents female characters who affect the political world. Dido is queen of Carthage in her own right and Amata is one of the main forces that starts the Italian war. But these two women stand out in the Aeneid precisely because they …
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… references in the contemporary Augustan poets Vergil, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid. Other extant versions of the Lucretia legend do not mention woolworking; Livy appears to have added Lucretia’s devotion to wool, a tradition in keeping with Augustan propaganda. Woolworking has come to be …
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A procedure for the estimation of total radioactivity in water
<p>One of the essential duties of the State of California Department of Civil Defense in times of nuclear weapon attack will be radiological monitoring. The workers in this field will operate from a mobile laboratory truck, equipped with radiation counters and meters, but containing only the …
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Resistance to the Rise of the Principate: An Analysis of Literary Allusions to Augustus’ Rivals
… the literary portion of this research include Vergil’s Camilla and Palinurus in the <em>Aeneid</em>, Ovid’s Daphne in the <em>Metamorphoses</em>, and a collection of episodes from Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses </em>and <em>Fasti </em>that plausibly represent familial strife in the <em>domus …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… toward literary models, whether classical like Vergil or vernacular like Pierre de Ronsard. It also allows me in my final chapter to show how Spenser's depiction of the relation of poetry to power in <italic>The Faerie Queene</italic> is more critical of humanist ideals than what we find in his …
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Every dog has their poem: readings in the Cynegetica of Grattius and Nemesianus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01