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This dissertation analyzes growth and graduality in Vergil’s Bucolics . In the Bucolics , Vergil unifies various forms of growth, defined in this study as increase over time. There is the growth of organic life forms—that is, the move towards biological maturity that occurs over…

In this dissertation I examine Vergil's use of laetus (and laetitia, laetor, and inlaetabilis) in the Aeneid ; for context, I also present the use of the laet- stem in earlier poets and in the i and Eclogues. The two basic uses of laetus in Latin literature indicate human emotio…

Dante’s Divine Comedy plots a literary history of epic poetry from the apparitions and mythologies of Homer through those of Vergil, Statius, and even St. Augustine. While Dante employs the standard conventions of epic poetry, he manipulates these standards in various ways, such…