Virgil's "Aeneid"

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The paper argues that one needs to understand Roman history in order to understand Roman literature. The paper focuses on Virgil's epic, the "Aeneid" and contends that the "Aeneid" is a romantic retelling of the "Fall of Troy."

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"It has been said that in order to appreciate Roman literature, one must understand Roman history. One of the most important works in Roman literature in the Augustan age, the Golden Age of Roman literature, was the long national epic created by the poet Virgil who succeeded in placing the history of Rome in the great tradition of the Greeks and the Trojan War."

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