 |
|
|
Eclogues | A Wisdom Archive on Eclogues | | Eclogues A selection of articles related to Eclogues | |
| | eclogues, Eclogues | | | Page 1 Page 2 » Page 3 « More » | |
| |
| ARTICLES RELATED TO Eclogues | | | |  Eclogues: Encyclopedia II - Ancient Greek literature - Hellenistic AgeBy 338 BC all of the Greek city-states except Sparta had been conquered by Philip II of Macedon. Philip's son Alexander the Great extended his father's conquests greatly. In so doing he inaugurated what is called the Hellenistic Ages. Alexander's conquests were in the East, and Greek culture shifted first in that direction. Athens lost its preeminent status as the leader of Greek culture, and it was replaced temporarily by Alexandria, Egypt. After the rise of Rome, all the Mediterranean area was brought within one far-flung empire. Greek civ ...
See also:Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek literature - Classical and Pre-Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greek literature - Epic Poetry, Ancient Greek literature - Lyric Poetry, Ancient Greek literature - Tragedy, Ancient Greek literature - Comedy, Ancient Greek literature - Historiography, Ancient Greek literature - Philosophy, Ancient Greek literature - Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greek literature - Hellenistic Poetry, Ancient Greek literature - Roman Age, Ancient Greek literature - Historiography, Ancient Greek literature - Philosophy Read more here: » Ancient Greek literature: Encyclopedia II - Ancient Greek literature - Hellenistic Age |
| |
| | | | | Eclogues: Encyclopedia II - Loeb Classical Library - Reception Although some serious classicists spurn the Loebs (which have only a minimal apparatus criticus) as amateurish, and many non-classicists, conversely, are unimpressed by the relatively pedestrian prose of the English translations (necessary because of the desire to remain as literal as possible), the Loeb editions are nonetheless ubiquitous, still the "handy books of a size that would fit in a gentleman's pocket" that they were in ...
See also:Loeb Classical Library, Loeb Classical Library - Origin, Loeb Classical Library - Reception, Loeb Classical Library - Volumes published, Loeb Classical Library - Greek, Loeb Classical Library - Latin, Loeb Classical Library - External Link: Read more here: » Loeb Classical Library: Encyclopedia II - Loeb Classical Library - Reception |
| |
| | | | | | | | Eclogues: Encyclopedia II - Virgil - Later views of Virgil Even as the Roman world collapsed, literate men acknowledged that the Christianized Virgil was a master poet, even when they ceased to read him. Gregory of Tours read Virgil and some other Latin poets, though he cautions us that "We ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death." Surviving medieval collections of manuscripts containing Virgil's works include the Vergilius Augusteus, the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus.
Dante made Virgil his guide to ...
See also:Virgil, Virgil - Life, Virgil - Early works, Virgil - Composition of the Aeneid and death, Virgil - Later views of Virgil, Virgil - Mysticism and hidden meanings, Virgil - Virgil's name in English, Virgil - List of works, Virgil - Bibliography Read more here: » Virgil: Encyclopedia II - Virgil - Later views of Virgil |
| |
| | | Page 1 Page 2 » Page 3 « More » | |
| |
|
|
