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... Virgil . Of the plays of the five chief tragic dramatists of the Republic , -two pioneers , Livius Andronicus and Naevius , and three masters , Ennius , Pacuvius , and Accius , - seven , in Ribbeck's collection , are based on Æschylus ...
... Virgil . Of the plays of the five chief tragic dramatists of the Republic , -two pioneers , Livius Andronicus and Naevius , and three masters , Ennius , Pacuvius , and Accius , - seven , in Ribbeck's collection , are based on Æschylus ...
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... Virgil's indebtedness , most clearly seen in the first six books of the Aeneid , is a matter rather of ideas than of phrases , although the familiar " Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit " has a forgotten origin or at least ...
... Virgil's indebtedness , most clearly seen in the first six books of the Aeneid , is a matter rather of ideas than of phrases , although the familiar " Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit " has a forgotten origin or at least ...
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... Virgil's hero , the shape is the shape of the ' pious ' Aeneas , but the voice becomes Jason's . Indeed as if to own his debt , Virgil here adds allusions to other plays . Dido in her despair grows distracted - 74 " As the mad Pentheus ...
... Virgil's hero , the shape is the shape of the ' pious ' Aeneas , but the voice becomes Jason's . Indeed as if to own his debt , Virgil here adds allusions to other plays . Dido in her despair grows distracted - 74 " As the mad Pentheus ...
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