Virgil Virgil. 7019 BC. The greatest of the Roman poets, Publius VergiliusMaro, was not a Roman by birth. His early home was on a farm http://www.crystalinks.com/virgil.html
Extractions: 70-19 BC The greatest of the Roman poets, Publius Vergilius Maro, was not a Roman by birth. His early home was on a farm in the village of Andes, near Mantua. His father was a farmer, prosperous enough to give his son the best education. The young Virgil was sent to school at Cremona and then to Milan. At the age of 17 he went to Rome to study. There he learned rhetoric and philosophy from the best teachers of the day. After the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey, the family farm was seized. The loss, however, proved to be a blessing in disguise, for it brought Virgil powerful friends. They introduced Virgil to the friends of Octavian, who was soon to become the emperor Augustus. Through his generosity Virgil was freed from financial worries and was able to devote himself entirely to literature. Thus his influence continued through the Middle Ages and into modern times. Superstitious people of medieval times looked upon his tomb at Naples with religious veneration. ANCIENT GREECE ANCIENT AND LOST CIVILIZATIONS INDEX ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ALL FILES CRYSTALINKS MAIN PAGE
A Recommended Reading List - MasterWorks - Mason West BC) Conic Sections; Cicero (10643 BC) Works; Lucretius (c.95-55BC) On the Nature of Things; Virgil (70-19 BC) Works; Horace (65-8 http://mason-west.com/MasterWorks/adler.shtml
Extractions: AUTHORS Masterworks Melville Hemingway Eliot Housman Cummings Millay Hawthorne Catullus Beat Berryman Bishop Roethke Poe WRITINGS AUTHORS REVERBERATIONS The Masterworks of Western Civilization A hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others The Ancients First through Fifth Centuries Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries Fifteenth Century ... the fifty essential books the guardian's choices for the indispensable read, saturday, 1 june 2002 Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren How to Read a Book , A Recommended Reading List The Library of America Anthony Burgess 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 Clifton Fadiman Lifetime Reading Plan Kenneth Rexroth Classics Revisited and More Classics Revisited The Lake Forest List Recommended Reading in Great Literature, Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois UWM Bookstore Select 100 as of April 1989 Ovid An assortment of books by the great Roman poet and author of Metamorphoses to and from this page Site Search
Augustus Caesar The epic of Virgil (7019 BC), history of Livy (59 BC-17 AD), the personal poetryof Horace (65-8 BC), Propertius (after 16 BC), Tibullus (48-19 BC) and Ovid http://www.bible-history.com/augustus/AUGUSTUSAugustus_Caesar.htm
Extractions: Contents Index That the empire survived the civil wars that destroyed the republic was largely due to the long life (63 B.C.-14 A.D.) and political skill of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus. In 44 B.C. Octavian, great nephew and adopted son of the murdered dictator, rallied Caesar's veterans and used them first against Marc Antony, the chief leader of the Caesarians, and then in alliance with Antony and Lepidus (the Second Triumvirate), against the republicans. Proscriptions caused the death of some 300 senators and 2000 nobles. Opponents of the triumvirate were defeated, and much property was made available with which to reward the troops.
Adler And Van Doren. How To Read A Book Orations, On Friendship, On Old Age); Lucretius (c.9555 BC) On the Natureof Things; Virgil (70-19 BC) Works; Horace (65-8 BC) Works (esp. http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtadler.html
ILTweb: Study Place: Vergil Vergil or Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), 7019 BC, greatest of Roman poets; b.near Mantua; a resident of Rome from 41 BC Early life on his father's farm was http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/digitexts/vergil/bio_vergil.html
Extractions: Study Spaces Main ... Dante Vergil or Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), 70-19 B.C., greatest of Roman poets; b. near Mantua; a resident of Rome from 41 B.C. Early life on his father's farm was central to his education. The Eclogues or Bucolics (37 B.C.) idealized rural life in the manner of THEOCRITUS. Vergil then turned to realistic and didactic rural poetry in the Georgics (30 B.C.), seeking, like HESIOD, to convey the charm of real life and work on the farm. He spent the rest of his life working on his national epic, the Aeneid , one of the greatest long poems in world literature. Vergil's AENEAS is a paragon of Roman virtues-familial devotion, loyalty to the state, and piety. The 12 books follow Aeneas from TROY's fall through his affair with the Carthaginian queen, DIDO, to the founding of the Roman state. The poem, in dactylic hexameters of striking regularity, is central to all Latin literature. A favorite of AUGUSTUS, Vergil influenced poets from DANTE on. Vergil. The
AIM25: Thesaurus Personal Names: V Viscount. Vergil Virgil 7019 BC Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro. pathologist.Virgil 70-19 BC Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro Vergil. http://www.aim25.ac.uk/search/thesaurus/persons/list21.htm
Busse Library Web Ovid (43 BC 17 AD) Ovid's Metamorphoses criticism and texts; The OvidProject University of Vermont. Virgil (70-19 BC) The Aeneid by Virgil. http://www.mtmercy.edu/lib/poetw.htm
Extractions: Busse Library Home MMC Jenzabar Periodical Indexes Desktop Reference ... Selected MMC Webpages Webliography: Poetry: The World Busse Library provides these webpages for students and faculty seeking information on poetry and poets around the world. Resources reflect online ready-reference and poetry research websites. A listing of Busse Library materials is included. Scroll down the desktop or move to the desired section: Ancient World Asia and Australia Canada Europe ... Busse Library Resources Ancient World
Inferno I 64 Virgil (7019 BC), born in the time of Julius Caesar, is the author of the Aeneidwhich describes Aeneas, son of Anchises, journeying through the underworld http://www.italianstudies.org/comedy/Inferno1.htm
Extractions: Inferno Canto I The Three Beasts, Virgil Notes 1 Time, midnight Good Friday morning in 1300, a Jubilee year proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII. Dante, born in 1265, is thirty-five, halfway through the biblical span of seventy years. 17 In the Ptolemaic system, the sun is a planet. The allegorical meaning of the three beasts is not clear. One tradition maintains that the leopard is probably symbolic of fraud; the lion (l .45) of violence; and the she-wolf (l. 49) of incontinence. Since these make up the three chief divisions of hell, the poet first encounters them in reverse order. 64 Virgil (70-19 B. C.), born in the time of Julius Caesar, is the author of the Aeneid which describes Aeneas, son of Anchises, journeying through the underworld (Book VI) before battling to found Rome. Camilla, Turnus, etc. (ll. 107-08) are characters in the poem. 101 The Greyhound may refer to Dante's patron Can Grande della Scala, lord of Verona, which lies between two towns of Feltro in Northern Italy. Another interpretation considers the appearance of the Greyhound as the second coming of Christ who will deliver humankind from evil (the she-wolf). 115-120 The poet is anticipating his journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise.
Great Works In Dialogue STUDY QUESTIONS (Part 1) Caesar Augustus commissioned Virgil (7019 BC) to createan epic that would impart a sense of nationality to the Roman citizens. http://www.stanford.edu/group/areaone/clross/quarter2/virgil/
Extractions: These questions, like all the study questions we offer, are meant to point up some patterns that are central to the text. They are by no means exhaustive, and they are not meant to be prescriptive. Although we won't be able to touch upon all of them in our discussions, they may serve to get you started on critical readings of our texts. Our discussions will be guided by the interests of the group rather than structured strictly in response to these questions. See study questions for: The cultural status of this text in the West is in many ways unparalleled. Until this century, a European or American was not deemed educated unless he had learned Latin. In medieval times, copyists in scriptoria saw Virgil as a folk hero. The text of the Aeneid was so hallowed that it was used to tell the future; in medieval battles, decisions were made by letting the
Wise Old Sayings.com German Proverb. Fear the Greeks bearing gifts. Virgil (70-19 BC) I fearthe Greeks, even when bringing gifts. . Fear the person who fears you. http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/wosdirectoryf.htm
Extractions: Talk As Long As You Like For Only 99ยข Home Directories Archives Links ... Contact Us F Saying Author Fact is stranger than fiction. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) Failure is a teacher, a harsh one but the best. - Thomas J. Watson Sr. (1874-1956) Failure is the path of least persistence. - unknown Faint heart never won fair lady. - W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) Fair words can buy a horse on credit. - Trinidadian (on flattery and praise) Fair words never hurt the tongue. - George Chapman (c.1559-1634) Faith is the ability to not panic. - unknown Falling is easier than rising. - Irish (on fame) False friends leave you in times of trouble. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) Familiarity breeds contempt. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. - German Proverb Fear the Greeks bearing gifts. - Virgil (70-19 BC) "I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts." Fear the person who fears you. - Middle Eastern (on courage and fear) Feed a cold and starve a fever. - C. Morley (1939) Fine feathers don't make fine birds. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) Fine words butter no parsnips. -
PHL 300 History Of Ancient & Medieval Philosophy c. 100 AD) GB,11 E. Virgil (70-19 BC) - GB,13 F. Plutarch (c.46-120 AD) - GB,14G. Galen (c.130-200 AD) - GB,10 H. Tacitus (c.55-c.117 AD) - GB,15 I. Ptolemy http://www.bradley.edu/las/phl/PHL300.html
Virgil Virgil (7019 BCE his patron Maecenas; Octavian, who became Emperor Augustus duringVirgil's lifetime; and In 19 BC Virgil set out on a trip to Greece and Asia http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/V/virgil/2.html
Extractions: The Appendix Vergiliana, a collection of minor poems, was attributed in antiquity to Virgil. The collection includes short epics (Ciris, Culex), elegies (Lydia, Copa), a didactic poem on volcanism (Aetna), and a group of short poems called the Catalepton, or Poems in a Trifling Vein. The poems are written in the erudite, or learned, innovative style that is characteristic of the poets of the Hellenistic Age (4th century to 1st century BC), many revealing the influence of Roman poet Catullus and his school of poets. The authenticity of the collection, however, is disputed by modern scholars. Some of the poems, especially a few of the Catalepton that deal with the life of Virgil, may be youthful works of his. The Aetna is generally dated in the 1st century AD. The Georgics, or Art of Husbandry, a poem in four books on the life of the farmer, was written from 36 to 29 BC. It drew inspiration from the Works and Days of Greek poet Hesiod. The poem exhibits the highest artistic perfection to be found in Latin poetry, and its publication confirmed Virgil's position as the foremost poet of the age. Although ostensibly a treatise on agriculture, the Georgics is in fact a celebration of country life and of Italy. The poem was designed to be universal in scope, as evidenced by the topics of war, peace, death, and resurrection, which respectively conclude each of the four books.
Frescoes In The Villa Valmarana In Vicenza (1757) The Iliad of Homer (c. 750650 BC), the Aeneid of Virgil (70-19 BC), Orlando furiosoby Ariosto (1474-1533) and Gerusalemme liberata by Tasso (1544-1595) were http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/t/tiepolo/gianbatt/6vicenza/
Extractions: Frescoes in the Villa Valmarana in Vicenza (1757) by Giovanni Battista TIEPOLO In 1757, Tiepolo and his son Giandomenico were invited to Vicenza to fresco rooms in the Villa Valmarana and in the adjoining guest quarters, the so-called 'foresteria'. Their patron was Count Giustino Valmarana, a scholar and theater enthusiast. Tiepolo frescoed the vestibule and four ground-floor rooms, while his son executed the decoration in the adjacent guest house. Giandomenico's lively genre scenes featuring peasants and merchants were intended to form a marked contrast with Giambattista's noble and tragic themes in the Villa, borrowed from famous works of Greek, Roman, and Italian literature. The Iliad of Homer (c. 750-650 BC), the Aeneid of Virgil (70-19 BC), Orlando furioso by Ariosto (1474-1533) and Gerusalemme liberata by Tasso (1544-1595) were the sources for the different scenes which, because of the small, almost intimate proportions of the rooms, are narrated with a certain simplicity and using a limited number of figures. The characteristic element of the frescoes in the Villa Valmarana is the way in which the representations have been conceived as theatrical scenes, in which the various heroes act as if on the stage.
Extractions: The GREEKS Athens has long been viewed as the cradle of western civilization. Although other great cities and empires had exited before Athens, it was the Greek civilization that was the first to give the west a truly advanced and complex intellectual heritage. Literature saw its first great expression in the epic poems of Homer and the plays of the Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Written history was practically created by Herodotus and further refined by Thucydides. The works of both Plato and Aristotle mark the beginning of grand philosophical thinking in the west, and science saw its first step forward in the medical works of Hippocrates and the mathematical works of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius. Homer (800 B.C.) Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) Euripides (480-406 B.C.) Thucydides (460-400 B.C.) Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)
Let's Go - Italy - Latin Lovers own time. Virgil (7019 BC) wrote the Aeneid about the origins of Romeand the heroic toils of founding father Aeneas. Horace's (65 http://www.letsgo.com/ITA/01-LifeTimes-57
Extractions: @import "/styles/main.css"; Home Series Resources Forums ... Sardinia (Sardegna) This content is from Let's Go: Italy 2003. Italy Life and Times Literature Latin Lovers As they gained dominance over the Hellenized Mediterranean, the Romans discovered the joys of literature. Plautus (c. 259-184 BC) wrote raucous comedies including Pseudolus. The lyric poetry of Catullus (84-54 BC) set a high standard for passion. Cicero (106-43 BC), the greatest speaker of his day, set an all-time standard for political rhetoric. Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) gave a first-hand account of the expansion of empire in his Gallic Wars. Despite a government prone to banishing the impolitic, Augustan Rome produced an array of literary talent. Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) recorded the authorized history of Rome from the city's founding to his own time. Virgil (70-19 BC) wrote the Aeneid about the origins of Rome and the heroic toils of founding father Aeneas Horace's (65-8 BC) verse explores love, wine, service to the state, literature, hostile critics and the happiness that comes from a small farm in the country. Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) gave the world the Amores
Untitled VIII. The Veterans Themselves Can be Happy. Virgil's nymphs Virgil(7019 BC), Roman poet. His most famous work is the 12-book http://home.intranet.org/~rkwong/LMannot5.html
ADLER AND VAN DOREN'S READING LIST Lucretius (c.9555 BC), On the Nature of Things. Virgil (70-19 BC),Works. Horace (65-8 BC), Works (Odes and Epodes, The Art of Poetry). http://home.attbi.com/~dwtaylor1/adler.html
Extractions: READING LIST In their How to Read a Book (1940, 1972), Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren append "A Recommended Reading List." They write: "On the following pages appears a list of books that it would be worth your while to read. We mean the phrase 'worth your while' quite seriously. Although not all of the books listed are 'great' in any of the commonly accepted meanings of the term, all of them will reward you for the effort you make to read them. All of these books are over most people's heads - sufficiently so, at any rate, to force most readers to stretch their minds to understand and appreciate them. And that, of course, is the kind of book you should seek out if you want to improve your reading skills, and at the same time discover the best that has been thought and said in our literary tradition." In some instances where a general title for an author is cited, e.g. Works, Tragedies, the particular titles recommended by the authors are shown in parentheses.
CLIFTON FADIMAN'S LIFETIME READING PLAN Lucretius (c10050 BC), Of the Nature of Things. Virgil (70-19 BC), The Aeneid.Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Meditations. Saint Augustine (354-430), The Confessions. http://home.attbi.com/~netaylor1/fadimansreading.html
Extractions: Clifton Fadiman Clifton Fadiman, who died in 1999 at the age of 95, was an editor, essayist, anthologist and broadcast personality. He was an editor and judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club for over 50 years. He wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica as well as numerous magazines and compiled over two dozen anthologies on subjects ranging from mathematics to poetry to the pun. He became very well known appearing on the radio quiz show Information, Please! The Lifetime Reading Plan was first published in 1960; the second and third editions, with revisions and amplifications, appeared in 1978 and 1986. Finally, with the assistance of John S. Major, Clifton Fadiman prepared The New Lifetime Reading Plan (4th edition, 1998). The book is divided into 133 sections with each section devoted to an author and one or more of that author's books. The books are presented in chronological order and discussed in two or three pages each. This 4th edition addresses works of greater diversity than any of the earlier editions. The authors' write in the preface - "Because our country is more profoundly multicultural than ever, and also because it is to everyone's personal advantage to cast as wide a net as possible in harvesting the world's cultural riches, the works suggested...(here)... now include Lady Murasaki along with Jane Austen, Tanizaki cheek-by-jowl with Faulkner, Ssu-ma Ch'ien as well as Thucydides. We think these additions to the Plan will enhance both your pleasure and your sense of achievement as a reader."
