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"Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an et…
"How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic trad…