Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
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 definiti...
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