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... Roman literature until six hundred years later — there was no Roman literature , indeed , until the Romans came into intimate contact with Greek civilisation . Early in the third century B.C. , after the first war with Carthage , the Romans ...
... Roman literature until six hundred years later — there was no Roman literature , indeed , until the Romans came into intimate contact with Greek civilisation . Early in the third century B.C. , after the first war with Carthage , the Romans ...
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... Roman writers agreed in eulogising the purity of his Latin style . The Romans were never able to write tragedy at all comparable with the magnificence of Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides . Ennius , a con- temporary of Terence , who ...
... Roman writers agreed in eulogising the purity of his Latin style . The Romans were never able to write tragedy at all comparable with the magnificence of Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides . Ennius , a con- temporary of Terence , who ...
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... Roman writer , or at any rate the first whose works have remained , to write a biography , and his life of his uncle , the Roman General Agricola , who spent most of his active military career in Britain , is the earliest piece of ...
... Roman writer , or at any rate the first whose works have remained , to write a biography , and his life of his uncle , the Roman General Agricola , who spent most of his active military career in Britain , is the earliest piece of ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE FIRST BOOKS IN THE WORLD | 1 |
HOMER | 18 |
THE STORY OF THE BIВІ Е | 41 |
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