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Vergil and Elegy by Alison Keith; Micah Young Myers is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being <i>elegy</i>, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alison Keith; Micah Young Myers
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781487547998
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Rome
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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