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Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
Aeneid by Virgil (Roman religion) 1st century AD. Metamorphoses by Ovid (Greek and Roman mythology) ... (Roman poet, Greek mythology; incomplete) 4th century
The Poetry of the Aeneid (1965) Virgil’s Pastoral Art: Studies in the Eclogues (1970) Tibullus: A Commentary (1973) Virgil’s Poem of the Earth (1979) Essays on Latin Lyric, Elegy, and Epic (1982) Artifices of Eternity: Horace’s Fourth Book of Odes (1986) Virgil’s Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence (1995)
It is written in French octosyllabic couplets totaling a little over 10,000 lines. Its subject matter is the tale of Aeneas, based on Virgil's Aeneid. It is one of the three important Romans d'Antiquité ("Romances of Antiquity") of this period; the other two are the Roman de Thèbes (anonymous) and the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure.
The Roman poet Vergil, for instance, modeled his epic poem the Aeneid on the Iliad and the Odyssey. [ 152 ] During the Middle Ages , ancient Greek literature was largely forgotten in Western Europe.
Maffeo Vegio (Latin: Maphaeus Vegius) (1407–1458) was an Italian poet who wrote in Latin; he is regarded by many as the finest Latin poet of the fifteenth century. Apotheosis of Aeneas. Born near Lodi, he studied at the University of Pavia, and went on to write some fifty works of both prose and poetry.
John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar.In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott. [1]
Lacrimae rerum (Latin: [ˈlakrɪmae̯ ˈreːrũː] [1]) is the Latin phrase for "tears of things." It derives from Book I, line 462 of the Aeneid (c. 29–19 BC), by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC).