24 The maturity of Virgil’s Aeneid is ultimately realized in the longevity of its widespread appeal “among all classes and conditions of men,” but its longevity exists, ultimately, because it is mature. And because it is mature, it can invite readers to reflect not only on its themes and motifs or its characters and ideas, but on itself as a whole. Because Virgil’s poetry is the work of a mature mind, written in a mature language in the context of a civilization and language that were already mature, it stands as the quintessential classic, a work that all other works must reconcile themselves to, and a work that continues to
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