Virgil: The Aeneid

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC -- September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil (/ˈvɜrdʒəl/) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him.
Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy-in Roman mythology the founding act of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably the Divine Comedy of Dante, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.
The Aeneid (/əˈniːɪd/; Latin: Aeneis [ajˈneːis]-the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.
The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy.
This audio collection contains a treasury of 100 classic books and includes info on the life and times of the author, the theme of the book, the characters, the story outline, a concise yet detailed abridgement of the story and a discussion of the values that make each book one of the great classical works of literature.
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[@virgilcorbett3323]

Interesting

[@Dark0Knight94]

you by any chance got a classics A-level exam on " Virgil and the world of the hero"?

[@Hotpocketmountiandew]

They should have just made this instead of remade Clash of the Titans. It's really cool. With the magical queens and awesome Italian guy. Going from castle to castle and they keep telling him. Sorry, your princess is in another castle. And then this lady magically makes dog food for a monster dog. But it's drugged. And then the italian guy meets pin head from hellraiser. Where he tells him, Mario. I mean, Aeneid, no. I am your father. Then the klingons fight the romulans in this giant super cool battle. It would have worked way better than giant scorpion monster things.

[@willimilliw]

Is it scribe (something he just noted as it went on?) Or a writ something he wrote then it occurred?neither its a speculation of what might had happened.

[@jeffcat4598]

and then and then and then

[@normanclemens7225]

Italian/American author: ---- pots did stop---- under pen name: norman clemens---

[@perripeille6927]

Who was Virgil

[@suejak1]

He was a G holmes

[@willimilliw]

A monkey swung.a chariot roared.fire filled the night.tears were worn.as to marrow awaited.a pig snorted.as a rooster crowed.night was still as were the fields.clouded rumbled,marble stood,towers were erected.temples called.tomorrow called as yesterday said goodbye.the tide shifted as fish danced.a circle was formed. Shapes shifted.minds changed.the earth quaked.the heavens opened.the food of god surpassed.the ground opened claiming its reward.what was written disappeared the night shined as the path was broud...