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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: Aenē̆is [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.
The work was the first complete translation of a major classical text in the Scots language and the first successful example of its kind in any Anglic language. In addition to Douglas's version of Virgil's Aeneid , the work also contains a translation of the "thirteenth book" written by the fifteenth-century poet Maffeo Vegio as a continuation ...
Aeneads. This is for the mythical allies of Aeneas. For the story written about them by Virgil, see Aeneid. In Roman mythology, the Aeneads ( Ancient Greek: Αἰνειάδαι) were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War. Aenides was another patronymic from Aeneas, which is applied by ...
Georgics Book III, shepherd with flocks, Roman Virgil. The Georgics ( / ˈdʒɔːrdʒɪks / JOR-jiks; Latin: Georgica [ɡeˈoːrɡɪka]) is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE. [1] As the name suggests (from the Greek word γεωργικά, geōrgiká, i.e. "agricultural (things)") [2] the subject of the poem is agriculture ...
t. e. The Epic Cycle ( Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized : Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes ...
The Catalogue of Ships ( Ancient Greek: νεῶν κατάλογος, neōn katálogos) is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer 's Iliad (2.494–759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy. [ 1] The catalogue gives the names of the leaders of each contingent, lists the settlements in the kingdom represented by the ...
The Aeneid was written during a period of political unrest in Rome. The Roman republic had effectively been abolished, and Octavian ( Augustus Caesar) had taken over as the leader of the new Roman empire. The Aeneid was written to praise Augustus by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Virgil does so by mirroring Caesar ...
The Fields of sorrow or Fields of mourning ( Latin: Lugentes campi) [1] are an afterlife location that is mentioned by Virgil during Aeneas ' trip to the underworld. In his Aeneid, Virgil locates the fields of sorrow close to the rough waters of the river Styx and describes them as having gloomy paths and dark myrtle groves.