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The seductive methods by which Alexandrinism had made it equally easy to enshrine in verse his morning reading or his evening's amour, proved too great an attraction for the young Roman votary of the muses. Rome already teemed with the class so pitilessly satirized by Horace and Juvenal, the "Saecli incommoda, pessimi poetae."
This modern tendency attached itself not to the native authorship, but rather to the more recent Greek literature or the so-called Alexandrinism. The Greek Alexandrinism We cannot avoid saying at least so much respecting this remarkable winter-garden of Hellenic language and art, as is requisite for the understanding of the Roman literature of this and the later epochs.
This modern tendency attached itself not to the native authorship, but rather to the more recent Greek literature or the so-called Alexandrinism. The Greek Alexandrinism We cannot avoid saying at least so much respecting this remarkable winter-garden of Hellenic language and art, as is requisite for the understanding of the Roman literature of this and the later epochs.
On the other hand, as the new empire rested on the fact that the mighty streams of Greek and Latin nationality, after having flowed in parallel channels for many centuries, now at length coalesced, the Italian literature had not merely as hitherto to seek its groundwork generally in the Greek, but had also to put itself on a level with the Greek literature of the present, or in other words with Alexandrinism.
Moreover the fact always deserves to be honourably acknowledged, that the Roman poets of the sixth century did not attach themselves to the Hellenic literature of the day or what is called Alexandrinism, but sought their models solely in the older classical literature, although not exactly in its richest or purest fields.
We shall have afterwards to show that the Augustan literature, compared with the kindred literature of the period of the Diadochi, was far less a literature of philologues and far more an imperial literature than the latter, and therefore had a far more permanent and far more general influence in the upper circles of society than the Greek Alexandrinism ever had.
But it was by no means simply such accidental occasions which called into existence the Roman Alexandrinism; it was on the contrary a product perhaps not pleasing, but thoroughly inevitable of the political and national development of Rome.
Moreover the fact always deserves to be honourably acknowledged, that the Roman poets of the sixth century did not attach themselves to the Hellenic literature of the day or what is called Alexandrinism, but sought their models solely in the older classical literature, although not exactly in its richest or purest fields.
ALEXANDRINISM. Amid all this, metaphysics namely, the effort to comprehend the universe appears somewhat at a discount. Alexandrinism is a "Neoplatonism" that is, a renewed Platonism and, as considered by its authors, an augmented one. PLOTINUS. Plotinus taught this: God and matter exist. God is one, matter is multiple and divisible.
To this Hellenic course there was added the study of medicine, which was retained from the older Roman instruction, and lastly that of architecture indispensable to the genteel Roman of this period, who instead of cultivatingthe ground built houses and villas. Greek Instruction Alexandrinism
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