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Brutus, also called Brute of Troy, is a mythical British king. ... The 18th-century English poet Hildebrand Jacob wrote an epic poem, Brutus the Trojan, ...
It was the first work of history written in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Named for Britain's mythical founder, Brutus of Troy, the poem is largely based on the Anglo-Norman French Roman de Brut by Wace, which is in turn a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin Historia Regum Britanniae.
Brut (ca. 1190) is a Middle English poem compiled and recast by Layamon. It is named after Britain's mythical founder, Brutus of Troy.It is contained in the manuscripts Cotton Caligula A.ix, written in the first quarter of the 13th century, and in the Cotton Otho C.xiii, written about fifty years later (though in this edition it is shorter).
Brutus lands at Totnes and names the island, then called Albion, "Britain" after himself. Brutus defeats the giants who are the only inhabitants of the island, and establishes his capital, Troia Nova ("New Troy"), on the banks of the Thames; later it is known as Trinovantum, and eventually renamed London.
A page from Caxton's printing, describing the Percy-Neville feud of 1454. Originally a legendary chronicle written in Anglo-Norman in the thirteenth century (identified by the fact that some existing copies finish in 1272), the Brut described the settling of Britain by Brutus of Troy, son of Aeneas, and the reign of the Welsh Cadwalader. [7]
The Trojan genealogy of Nennius was written in the Historia Brittonum of Nennius and was created to merge Greek mythology with Christian themes. As a description of the genealogical line of Aeneas of Troy, Brutus of Britain, and Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, it is an example of the foundation genealogies found not only in early Irish, Welsh and Saxon texts but also in Roman sources.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) wrote about the paradox of admiring beauty while seeing a scene of death and failure. [58] The most influential contribution to the debate, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 's essay Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry , examines the differences between visual and literary art by comparing the ...
Complete tapestry of "Brutus' expedition to Aquitaine", with Innogen on the left. Innogen first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136).She was the eldest daughter of the Greek king Pandrasus, and was given in marriage to Brutus of Troy after he united the enslaved Trojans in Greece and defeated Pandrasus to gain their freedom.