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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Virgil

Virgil
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Aeneid

Introduction

The Aeneid is an epic. Webster's dictionary defines epic as follows: "A
long narrative poem about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or
heroes of high station, such as the Iliad or Odyssey, with a background of
warfare and the supernatural, a dignified style, and certain formal
characteristics of structure (beginning in the middle of the story, catalogue
passages, invocation of the muse, etc)." It is important to keep these points
in mind in reading the Aeneid, but if we expect an exciting fulfillment of the
first part of the ...

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