Vergil
1) The Aeneid
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"For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature--the role of duty and self-sacrifice,...
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Rund 700 Jahre nach Homer hatten dann auch die Römer ›ihre Odyssee‹. Wie Odysseusʼ Irrfahrt begann auch Aeneasʼ langer Weg in Troja, doch er hatte auf der Verliererseite gekämpft. Sein Zuhause war zerstört, seine Frau tot. Wohin würde es ihn verschlagen? Jeder von Vergils Zeitgenossen wusste es: nach Italien – zumindest nach vielen Zwischenstationen, darunter Karthago. Denn Aeneasʼ Erben gründeten später Rom.
Vergil schuf dieses Nationalepos...
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With the Eclogues, Virgil established his reputation as a major poet, and with the Georgics, he created a masterpiece of Latin poetry. Virgil drew upon the tradition of Greek pastoral poetry, importing it into an Italian setting and providing in these two works the model for subsequent European interpretations of the genre. The Eclogues unfolds in an idyllic landscape, under less-than-tranquil circumstances. Its shepherds tend their flocks amid not...