Part 17 (2/2)

1 What is known of the life of Naevius? 2 What is the nature of his _Belluil owe to this poenificance of it? 6 What were the chief events in the life of Ennius? 7 What interesting bit of self-portraiture appears in his _Annals_? 8 Why does he deserve the title of ”the father of Roman literature”? 9 What is the nature of the _Annals_? 10 Why is the loss of the great body of this work so ress did Latin literature il? 12 Hoas Vergil fitted for his career both by nature and training? 13 Into what select circle was he privileged to enter? 14 What was the nature of the _Eclogues_? 15 What of the _Georgics_? 16 Why did the _aeneid_ never receive its finishi+ng touches? 17 Hoas the poeil's probable purpose in writing the _aeneid_? 19 Quote the lines which proious il's treatment of the Gods compare with that of Ovid? 22 What in brief is the story of the _aeneid_? 23 What characteristic passages in the poem deal with the mystery of nature? 24 Frohout the poeuidance as to his future home? 25 On what occasions do the Gods interfere to influence the progress of events? 26

What characteristic customs of the times are portrayed in the poem? 27

What picture of life after death does the poeil represent as unpardonable sins? 29 How does Vergil glorify aeneas in his descendants? 30 How s of aeneas? 31 What in brief is the story of the re books?

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