The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil
by W. Y. Sellar
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About This Book
A very complete record of Horace, his life, his thoughts and his works in the first half of the book, followed by the Elegiac Poets. William Young Sellar is the author of Roman Poets of the Republic. From 1853-1859 he was an assistant professor at the University of St. Andrew, and from 1859-1863 was Greek Professor at that university. In 1863, to the great regret of St. Andrews, Mr. Sellar went to Edinburgh to fill the Chair of Latin.
Chapters (52)(click to expand)
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- CONTENTS
- THE ROMAN POETS OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE
- CHAPTER I. General Introduction.
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- VI.
- CHAPTER II. Virgil’s place in Roman Literature.
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- CHAPTER III. Life and Personal Characteristics of Virgil.
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- CHAPTER IV. The Eclogues.
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- CHAPTER V. Motives, Form, National Interest, and Sources of the Georgics.
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- CHAPTER VI. Structure and Composition of the Poem, in Relation To the Poem of Lucretius.
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- CHAPTER VII. The Georgics as the representative poem of Italy.
- CHAPTER VIII. The Roman Epic before the time of Virgil.
- CHAPTER IX. Form and Subject of the Aeneid.
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- CHAPTER X. The Aeneid As the Epic of the Roman Empire.
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- CHAPTER XI. The Aeneid as an Epic Poem of Human Life.
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- Footnotes
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