Identifier: grandeurthatwasr00stobrich (find matches)
Title: The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933
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Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
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eforeigner. The Romans knew that they could buy or seizebetter statues than they could carve: their task was to conquerand govern—not an ignoble art. The yEncid is explicitly a national laureate poem. Thepoet seeks to enshrine all Roman life in his pages, to epitomiseRoman history and to introduce allusions to characteristicpieces of myth and ritual. He inserts whole lines of Enniusor Lucretius when they please him. They are superseded andreplaced. Just like Dr)-den, he feels that he is the heir of theages. The extraordinary popularity which Vergil attainedeven in his own lifetime grew in the course of a few centuriesalmost into a cult. His tomb became an object of pilgrimage;in early Christian times he became a prophet and in the MiddleAges a wizard. The gentleness and purity of his personal lifeplayed their part in the creation of this strange Vergilian legend. Horace had less of the courtiers suppleness and requiredwinning to the imperial cause. It took two efforts of Maecenas236
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Plate 62. BAALBEK ; THE TEMPLE OF BACCHUS, EAST PORTICO (See p. 282) IP- 236 AUGUSTAN ROME to secure him and we have letters preserved in which Augustusvery good-humouredly confesses his disappointment that Horacehas refused a secretaryship. Horace was the son of a freedman,as he was not in the least ashamed to confess. But his fatherhad managed to secure for Quintus the education of a gentle-man under Greek teachers in Rome, himself attending the boyto school in place of the rascally pedagogue slaves who usuallyundertook that office. Horace had further enjoyed a Universityeducation at Athens, where he had fallen under the spell ofBrutus, for whom he fought at Philippi. He was, and remained,a Republican by instinct, but Maecenas won him over to thecause of Caesarism. He made his reputation with the Satires,a species of composition which may be termed truly Italian.The satire is a conversational medley written in the languageof prose with the rhythm of poetry. In this Horace wasimitati

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