method of portraying him changes as the poet shows us various seemingly incon-sistent
traits and aspects. Scholarly attention has taken the form of investigations of either the poet's …

The Aeneidis Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary
origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic …

Through the ages it has been the tendency of critics to dwell upon Virgil's praise of Augustus
and to emphasize the poet's role as a propagandist for the new regime. In his first encounter …

The story and its subject: Rome-The hero: Aeneas-The secondary heroes: Dido and Turnus-
The higher powers: Fate and the Gods-Structure: continuity and symmetry-Poetic …

The Aeneid is peopled with refugees, as Viktor Pöschl has reminded us." In addition to Dido
and Aeneas, there are Daedalus, Andro-mache, Helenus, Antenor, and Evander, each …

Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, abandoned her country and family for
a foreign lover, caused the Trojan War, brought death and destruction to Trojans and Greeks …

RG Austin, in the introduction to his edition of Aeneid IV, makes the following statement:" His
(ie Vergil's) Dido and his Aeneas are a woman and a man in love; and long after the tragic …

The theme of the building and destruction of cities is a conspicuous one in the Aeneid. The
poem opens with a paragraph which summarizes the suffering that is to lead to the building …

In the opening section of Ovid's Ars Amatoria 3 the poet, in an attempt to gain favour with his
female addressees, lists a number of legends where it is men who are the deceivers. In this …

Mezentius is the very first entry in the Catalogue of the Latin Allies at the end of Aeneid VII
(647-654); he is Turnus' most important ally." First to enter the war is harsh Mezentius from …