. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. (-. ) iJo H o m X Q<!(J s AUGUSTAN ROMEmore. It was all done with consummate art and unblushingimpudence. When the sad Niobe is bereft of her seven fairchildren by the arrows of the jealous gods, our poet, ingeniouslyparodying Vergil, observes: heu quantum haec Niobe, Niobe distabat ab ilia. In telling the dreadful tragedy whereby the Greeks had ex-plained the sorrow of Philomela, the nightingale, our poetcheerfully describes the slaughter of the children, adding: pars inde cauis exultat aenis,pars xieiibus stridunt.
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. (-. ) iJo H o m X Q<!(J s AUGUSTAN ROMEmore. It was all done with consummate art and unblushingimpudence. When the sad Niobe is bereft of her seven fairchildren by the arrows of the jealous gods, our poet, ingeniouslyparodying Vergil, observes: heu quantum haec Niobe, Niobe distabat ab ilia. In telling the dreadful tragedy whereby the Greeks had ex-plained the sorrow of Philomela, the nightingale, our poetcheerfully describes the slaughter of the children, adding: pars inde cauis exultat aenis,pars xieiibus stridunt. And so he moves from one lovely myth to another, preservingthem indeed for our archaeologists, but delicately with thebreath of his profanity defiling them for ever. Now Ovid is far more typical of the civilisation of his daythan either Vergil or Horace. For Ovid was a Romanknight, rich and gifted, who in earlier days would haveenjoyed a comfortable equestrian career, humorously plunder-ing a province or two, and gracefully collecting objects ofart in Asia. He actually
Size: 2762px × 905px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidgrandeurthat, bookyear1920
