Questions tagged [virgil]
For questions regarding the life and works of Virgil, a Roman poet.
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When did Yeats enter into “Virgil's territory”?
In the definition of "divagate," several dictionaries, like this one, give the following example sentence:
Yeats divagated into Virgil's territory only once.
What instance of Yeats' writing does ...
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How much of the original verse is lost in Fitzgerald's translation of The Aeneid?
I checked out The Aeneid from the library and read it today. I found it a bit easier to read than I'd expected (I guess I expected worse-than-Shakespearean language/turns of phrase) and then I ...
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Who first referred to Odysseus as Ulysses?
When I was in high school, Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid were taught as a trilogy of sorts.
Was Virgil the first Roman to refer to Odysseus as 'Ulysses' or was there another (...
