Virgil The Art Of Imitating Ho
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“Oprah, Uma. Uma, Oprah.”1 “Homer, Virgil. Virgil, Homer.” The Aeneid, the greatest Latin
epic of the battles and wanderings of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, and his founding of the ruling line
for the Roman Empire was written by the great Latin poet Virgil. Or so it seems. ....
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.... characters. There are also many little details here and there which show that Virgil certainly
modeled his epic after Homer, not to plagiarize, but for the style and the use of a model for
human insight and feeling. When reading the Aeneid, one can clearly see and hear the Homeric
echoes present in the epic.
The Aeneid is clearly divided into two parts, “The ‘Odyssean’ Aeneid”3 and, “The
‘Iliadic’ Aeneid.”4 The first six book ....
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