Download or read book Hellenistic Influence on the Aeneid written by Eleanor Shipley Duckett and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Hellenistic literature upon Vergil is no new subject, for commentators have long since exhausted their efforts in bringing to light every resemblance between the words of Apollonius, Theocritus, or Callimachus, and the language of the Aeneid, Georgics, or Bucolics. It is not, therefore, to actual correspondence of letter that I now direct my attention, nor primarily to the influence of literature upon literature; but rather to correspondence of spirit and manner, to the influence upon Vergil's mind and work of the Hellenistic tradition of life and thought, together with its literary expression. Vergil, as well as other Romans, had shared the inheritance, good or evil, which Roman life had received and was still receiving from every part of the Hellenistic world, Greece and Macedonia, Egypt and Asia. -- Preface.