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After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary ancestor Aeneas. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equ...
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missing page info • first pub 1990 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin (Penguin Classics)
Publication date: Not specified
Description
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary ancestor Aeneas. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equ...
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