Virgile
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Virgile : The Aeneid
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Année fleeing Troy in flames with his father on his shoulders, the journey on the raging sea, the passion and sacrifice of Didon, the descent to Hell... The images of Eneid, powerful and tragic, haunt our culture. This epic where history unites with legend, where divinities, nymphs, oracles mingle with the vicissitudes of men, is not only the sublime account of the foundation of Rome. A vast river of language leadin…
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Virgile : The Georgics
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We are in 29 B.C.E.: Octave, the future emperor, has just gained control of the world thanks to his victory over Antoine and Cleopatra, and Virgile publishes his Georgics, dedicated to Mécène, a close friend of Octave. The content of the four songs, as announced in the first verses, leaves waiting for a treaty of agriculture. Virgile therefore seems to support Octavian's efforts in favour of Italian agriculture and …
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Virgile : The Eclogues
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In a perfect, elegant, refined form, Virgile has composed his first great work, Les Bucolices. There is enough sensitivity and talent in these ten short poems to ensure that, with this one work, Virgil deserves to be placed in the top of the Latin poets. Virgile wants to fight, with the Georgics, against the abandonment of the countryside, too often abandoned for the distant wars; he tries to honor the work of the f…
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