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  2. Golden Bough (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Bough is one of the episodic tales written in the epic Aeneid, book VI, by the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BC), which narrates the adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas after the Trojan War. [1] [2]

  3. Aeneid - Wikipedia

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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: Aenēĭs [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.

  4. Vergilius Vaticanus - Wikipedia

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    The Vergilius Vaticanus, also known as Vatican Virgil [1] (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225), is a Late Antique illuminated manuscript containing fragments of Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics. It was made in Rome in around 400 CE, [2] and is one of the oldest surviving sources for the text of the Aeneid.

  5. Dactylic hexameter - Wikipedia

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    Oral reading of Virgil's Aeneid, by Robert Sonkowsky, University of Minnesota. Greek hexameter analysis online tool, University of Vilnius. Audio/Visual Tutorials for Vergil's Hexameter, by Dale Grote, UNC Charlotte. Hexameter.co, practice scanning lines of dactylic hexameter from a variety of Latin authors.

  6. Fields of sorrow - Wikipedia

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    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. He refers to them as ...

  7. Stanley Lombardo - Wikipedia

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    Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo (alias Hae Kwang; [1] born June 19, 1943) is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid (published by the Hackett Publishing Company).

  8. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Pergamea - Wikipedia

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    Pergamea is a fictional settlement in the Aeneid, the epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC. Pergamea is the name of the city that Aeneas and his crew began to found on the island of Crete. In Delos, Apollo had delivered them an oracle telling them that they would found a new city in their homeland.

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