aeneid in a sentence
Examples
- Virgil's opening line for the " Aeneid " is a classic example of Latin hexameter:
- The Augustan poet Ovid parodies the opening lines of the " Aeneid " in " Donatus.
- Clothing colored with the Tyrian dye was mentioned in both the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil.
- Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine ( Aeneid book VI ).
- The poet Virgil makes reference to a haunted copse of cornel and myrtle in Book III of the Aeneid.
- In the Aeneid a shooting star falls onto the mountain in answer to the prayer of Anchises to Jupiter.
- According to Francis Atterbury, the character Iapis in Virgil's Aeneid represents Musa while Aeneas represents Augustus.
- Brief translations of Virgil's " Aeneid " in that first book led to further experiments.
- The German and Italian fascists used and misused classical literature, especially Virgil's " Aeneid ."
- The " Aeneid "'s first six books describe the journey of Aeneas from Troy to Rome.