English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...

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After Virgil ... used epic poetry in their attacks on liberal democracy. What dark future does it help them to articulate? Jordan Peterson writes about epics in each of his three books.

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In a copy of that book ... to Virgil, the foremost poet of the day, and with these two he gave sound counsel, in the form of a “ mirror of the prince,” to Augustus, the ruler of the Roman ...

One of over 200 illustrations originally designed for Johann Grüninger’s 1502 edition of Roman poet Virgil’s Aeneid ... the most influential illustrated books of the early 16th century.

IN any survey of Greek poetry ... and Virgil was gradually and laboriously accomplished under the constant influence of Greece. That finish of form, known as classical, which Roman writers ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...