Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Steve Reeves as Enea (); Carla Marlier as Lavinia, Latino's Daughter; Liana Orfei as Camilla, Queen of the Volsci; Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Eurialo (); Gianni Garko as Turno (), King of the Rusalie ()
Laocoön and His Sons sculpture shows them being attacked by sea serpents. As related in the Aeneid, after a nine-year war on the beaches of Troy between the Danaans (Greeks from the mainland) and the Trojans, the Greek seer Calchas induces the leaders of the Greek army to win the war by means of subterfuge: build a huge wooden horse and sail away from Troy as if in defeat—leaving the horse ...
Nisus is the elder, more experienced man. He is swift and accurate (acerrimus) in the use of projectile weapons, the javelin (iaculum) and arrows. Euryalus is still young, with the face of a boy ( puer ) who hasn't started shaving , just old enough to bear arms.
Cato Maior de Senectute ("Cato the Elder on Old Age") is an essay written by Cicero in 44 BC on the subject of aging and death. To lend his reflections greater import, [ 1 ] Cicero wrote his essay such that the esteemed Cato the Elder was lecturing to Scipio Aemilianus and Gaius Laelius Sapiens .
In a review for Arion, the classicist William Porter praised the book for rejecting the predominant social-political interpretation of the poem. [4] Sharing Horsfall's assessment, he endorsed the book's analysis of Vergil's negative imagery [ 5 ] but wrote that Johnson failed to see the wider implications of his observations and pursued his ...
Aeneas defeats Turnus, by Luca Giordano, 1634–1705.Though Virgil's sweeping descriptions cannot be seen, Aeneas is holding his shield in his left hand. The Shield of Aeneas is the shield that Aeneas receives from the god Vulcan in Book VIII of Virgil's Aeneid to aid in his war against the Rutuli.
The Great Ennead was only one of several such groupings of nine deities in ancient Egypt. Claims to preeminence made by its Heliopolitan priests were not respected throughout Egypt, as each nome typically had its own local deities, whose priests insisted stood above all others; [3] even in the nearby city of Memphis, which along with Heliopolis is contained within the limits of modern Cairo ...
The Augustan poet Ovid parodies the opening lines of the Aeneid in Amores 1.1.1–2, and his summary of the Aeneas story in Book 14 of the Metamorphoses, the so-called "mini-Aeneid", has been viewed as a particularly important example of post-Virgilian response to the epic genre.