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Virgil
Name at birth: Publius Vergilius MaroThe most famous poet of ancient Rome, Virgil (or Vergil) wrote the Aeneid, one of the greatest epic poems in human history. Raised on a farm in northern Italy,…Brewer's: Æolian harp.
The wind-harp. A box on which strings are stretched. Being placed where a draught gets to the strings, they utter musical sounds. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…Brewer's: Æneas
Æne′as The hero of Virgil's epic. He carried his father Anchises on his shoulders from the flames of Troy. After roaming about for many years, he came to Italy, where he founded a colony…epic
(Encyclopedia) epic, long, exalted narrative poem, usually on a serious subject, centered on a heroic figure. The earliest epics, known as primary, or original, epics, were shaped from the legends of…Brewer's: Virgil
In the Gesta Romanorum Virgil is represented as a mighty but benevolent enchanter. This is the character that Italian tradition always gives him, and it is this traditional character that…1973 National Book Awards
Arts and LettersDiderot, Arthur M. WilsonBiographyGeorge Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799, James Thomas FlexnerChildren's BooksThe Farthest Shore, Ursula K.…Concluding Note.
Footnotes Concluding Note. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of it, at an end, as that only was the subject of the poem,…The Iliad of Homer: Concluding Note
Appendix 2 Concluding Note. We have now passed through the Iliad, and seen the anger of Achilles, and the terrible effects of it, at an end, as that only was the subject of the poem, and…The Waste Land
T. S. EliotAbstractNam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo.[I have seen with…Brewer's: Cortina
The skin of the serpent Pytho, which covered the tripod of the Pythoness when she delivered her oracles. “Tripodas cortina tegit” ( Prudentius: Apophthegmata, 506); also the tripod itself…Trending
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