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An Introduction to Octavia Prætexta: Submitted in Partial Fulfilment, of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy at Columbia University in the City of New York (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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As regards the difference between the two peoples in the idea of what is essential in a drama, the Roman audience did not feel the intricate detail of plot as of prime importance: but their love of grandeur and force, and their admiration for whatever produces an emotional tension, were truly tragic qualities. Their poetic feel ing, though obscured by the utilitarian view they took of life, is shown by their tendency to put public inscrip tions into verse (as the elogia on the tombs of the Scipios) and by their sensibility to dramatic events (as the death of Virginia and the murder of This latter characteristic will be considered more in detail in the succeeding chapter on the Praetexta.
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