Introduction to classical Latin literature . the interwoven episode on Or-pheus and Eurydice. The story seems to be authentic,and Augustuss success in suppressing the earlier editionhas proved complete. Most classical scholars would agree upon the Georgics asthe most perfect and artistic poem in all Latin material is one in Avhicli Virgils lack of dramatic andconstructive force is felt as little as possible. Indeed, thesubject is so flexible, the general method is so discursive,that any digression can be and is gracefully justified, oreven half-concealed. Probably many lyric fli
Introduction to classical Latin literature . the interwoven episode on Or-pheus and Eurydice. The story seems to be authentic,and Augustuss success in suppressing the earlier editionhas proved complete. Most classical scholars would agree upon the Georgics asthe most perfect and artistic poem in all Latin material is one in Avhicli Virgils lack of dramatic andconstructive force is felt as little as possible. Indeed, thesubject is so flexible, the general method is so discursive,that any digression can be and is gracefully justified, oreven half-concealed. Probably many lyric flights of earlyyears, many long-hoaixled musical phrases or fancies, arehere imbedded in the mosaic pattern. The display of Alexandrian erudition, the allusions toobscure Hellenic names or legends, may better please thelearned historian or mythologist than the mere lover ofpure art and beauty. We must always remember, how-ever, that real classic mythology is nearly all of Greekorigin, that plagiarism then bore no stigma, that indeed r M«i«.
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