The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... Turnus as it is to adopt one toward the visionary figure of Junius Brutus , and it is difficult , I think , because Vergil has purposely made it so . Turnus is no villain pure and simple ; he is a human being , with all the at- tendant ...
... Turnus as it is to adopt one toward the visionary figure of Junius Brutus , and it is difficult , I think , because Vergil has purposely made it so . Turnus is no villain pure and simple ; he is a human being , with all the at- tendant ...
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... Turnus Vergil has given us , to his youth and vi- tality , to his fears and self - doubts , to the humanly forgetful Turnus of that moment in Book 12 ( 735-37 ; 994-97 ) , which might be funny if the stakes were not so terribly high ...
... Turnus Vergil has given us , to his youth and vi- tality , to his fears and self - doubts , to the humanly forgetful Turnus of that moment in Book 12 ( 735-37 ; 994-97 ) , which might be funny if the stakes were not so terribly high ...
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... Turnus , Vergil uses a locution that may appear to be merely a mild and insignificant catachresis : " hoc dicens ferrum adverso sub pectore condit / fer- vidus " ( 950–51 ) ( “ He sank his blade in fury in Turnus ' chest ” [ 1295 ] ...
... Turnus , Vergil uses a locution that may appear to be merely a mild and insignificant catachresis : " hoc dicens ferrum adverso sub pectore condit / fer- vidus " ( 950–51 ) ( “ He sank his blade in fury in Turnus ' chest ” [ 1295 ] ...
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The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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