Epic in Republican Rome

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Oxford University Press, 23‏/03‏/1995 - 208 من الصفحات
This book is a major new study of the epic poetry of Republican Rome. Goldberg treats the creators of these now-fragmentary works not simply as predecessors of Vergil, but as pioneers and poets in their own right. But Goldberg goes beyond practical criticism, exploring in the literary experiments of Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, and Cicero issues of poetry and patronage, cultural assimilation and national ideology, modeling and originality that both come to characterize Roman literature of all periods and continue to shape modern responses to that literature. What emerges from Goldberg's study is both a fresh perspective on Vergil's achievement and new insights into the cultural dynamics of second-century Rome.

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1 Ruins
3
2 Reconstructions
28
3 Saturnian Aesthetics
58
4 Hexameter Aesthetics
83
5 Poetry and Patronage
111
6 Ciceronian Sirens
135
7 Envoi
158
Works Cited
172
Concordances
182
Index of Passages
190
General Index
193
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الصفحة 44 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
الصفحة 12 - THAT time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie...
الصفحة 9 - It seems, as one becomes older, That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy Encouraged by superficial notions of evolution, Which becomes, in the popular mind, a means of disowning the past.
الصفحة 21 - Fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt, nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
الصفحة 143 - Utque volans alte raptum cum fulva draconem fert aquila implicuitque pedes atque unguibus haesit, saucius at serpens sinuosa volumina versat arrectisque horret squamis et sibilat ore, arduus insurgens; ilia haud minus urget obunco 755 luctantem rostro, simul aethera verberat alis: haud aliter praedam Tiburtum ex agmine Tarchon portat ovans.
الصفحة 76 - Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
الصفحة 7 - The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
الصفحة 76 - Naevius' effects, however, depend on the juxtaposition of small pieces. In fragment 25, entire verses, not their constituent cola, are the primary units of meaning. postquam avem aspexit in templo Anchisa, sacra in mensa penatium ordine ponuntur; immolabat auream victimam pulcram.
الصفحة 7 - The necessity that he shall conform, that he shall cohere, is not onesided ;(what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it.) The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them.
الصفحة 19 - His work may begin by discovering the outside of an event, but it can never end there; he must always remember that the event was an action, and that his main task is to think himself into this action, to discern the thought of its agent.

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