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Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire, and in his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the... Read Full Overview

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism... Read Full Overview

Virgil?'s Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid represent a series of attempts to combine technical brilliance and poetic beauty with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the state.