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    Aeneid (redirect from Virgil's aeneid)
    ISBN 978-0-87586-260-6. Horsfall, Nicholas (2000). A Companion to the Study of Virgil. Brill. p. 303. ISBN 978-90-04-11951-2. Burman, Thomas E. (2009). Reading the...
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    Norton and Company. Horsfall, N. (2000). A Companion to the Study of Virgil. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11951-2. Retrieved 16 May 2012. Kenney, E. J. (1971)...
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    Craig (11 December 2019), "Index of Early Printed Editions", Printing Virgil, Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-42135-6, retrieved 15 August 2023 www.bibliopolis.com...
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    Harpy (section Virgil)
    Odyssey 20.78 Valerius Flaccus, 4.425 Virgil, Aeneid 6.287 ff.; Seneca, Hercules Furens 747 ff. Virgil, Aeneid 3.210 Virgil, Aeneid 6.289 Apollonius Rhodius...
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    1960. p. 371. Eden, P. T. (1975). A Commentary on Virgil: Aeneid VIII. Leiden Supplementum. Vol. 35. BRILL. p. 6. ISBN 9789004042254. Cairns, Francis, ed...
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    Titanomachy, for the Latin poets Virgil and Ovid, Briareus was also an enemy of the gods, rather than an ally. In his Aeneid, Virgil has Aegaeon make war against...
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    love reside. Virgil locates these fields as part of, or near to, the region containing suicides. There Aeneas sees Caeneus, of whom Virgil says, although...
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    praying Juno, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 573-582 Ceyx in the tempest, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses...
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    Roman Folk Religion (Brill, 1992), pp. 10–12 online, noting earlier efforts to press an Etruscan etymology on Silvanus. Virgil. Aeneid VIII.600-1. Cato...
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    Aramaic interpretation of Scripture. Leiden: Brill. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-90-04-21769-0. Flesher, Paul Virgil McCracken; Chilton, Bruce David (2011). The...
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  • and Virgil cross Phlegethon with help from Nessus. Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Phlegethon (2); Homer, Odyssey 10.513–4. Plato, Phaedo 112b. Brill's New Pauly...
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    Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 182. Homer, The Odyssey x. 513 Pausanias, Description of Greece i. 17, § 5 Virgil, Aeneid vi. 297 Virgil, Aeneid 6. 323...
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    In his Georgics, Virgil stated that he had been nurtured by Parthenope, writing: At that time sweet Parthenope was nurturing me, Virgil, as I flourished...
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    practices, or else the coins function as a viaticum for the soul's journey. In Virgil's epic poem, Aeneid, the dead who could not pay the fee, and those who had...
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    daughters of Hades and Persephone. Their number is usually left indeterminate. Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto or...
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    ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0. Google Books. Horsfall, Nicholas, Virgil, Aeneid 2: A Commentary, Brill, 2008. ISBN 978-90-04-16988-3. Lycophron, Alexandra in Callimachus...
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    believe Cassandra's prophecies. Cassandra appears in texts written by Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus and Euripides. Each author depicts her prophetic powers differently...
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    Beekes, R. S. P., Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 1:678. Servius on Virgil, Aeneid 6.395; Ogden 2013a, p. 190; compare with Fulgentius...
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    LIMC 3559 (Nyx 6). Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Nyx; Papastavrou, p. 941. Smith, s.v. Nyx; Virgil, Aeneid 6.390 (pp. 558–61). Virgil, Aeneid 5.721 (pp. 520...
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    Instituts 63/64 (1948–49), pp. 83–90. Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Cyparissus; Servius, Commentary on the Aeneid of Virgil 3.680. Bernard Sergent, Homosexualité...
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  • Apollodorus, 1.2.2 & 1.4.5 Virgil, Georgics 4.346 Virgil, Georgics 4.343 Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Apollodorus, 1.2.2 Virgil, Georgics 4.341; Nonnus, Dionysiaca...
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    Second circle of hell (category Cultural depictions of Virgil)
    derives from the role of Minos in the Greek underworld in the works of Virgil and Homer. Dante also depicts a number of historical and mythological figures...
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    Purgatorio (category Cultural depictions of Virgil)
    the climb of Dante up the Mount of Purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil—except for the last four cantos, at which point Beatrice takes over as Dante's...
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    Georgics (category Poetry by Virgil)
    (/ˈdʒɔːrdʒɪks/ JOR-jiks; Latin: Georgica [ɡeˈoːrɡɪka]) is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE. As the name suggests (from the Greek word γεωργικά...
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    Treachery. Dante and Virgil threatened to go to Tityos and Typhon if Antaeus doesn't lower them into the Circle of Treachery. Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Tityus;...
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    Eden, A Commentary on Virgil: Aeneid VII (Brill, 1975), p. 155 online. Nicholas Horsfall, Virgil, Aeneid 11: A Commentary (Brill, 2003), p. 445 online...
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    (in French) "Base Joconde entry". P. T. Eden. A Commentary on Virgil: Aeneid VIII. — BRILL, 1975. — С. 19. — 221 с. — ISBN 9004042253. (in French) "Catalogue...
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    Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Vol. 1. Brill. p. 163. Hesiod, Theogony 517–520; Gantz (1993), p. 46 The usage in Virgil's maximum Atlas axem umero torquet stellis...
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    Marcellus' position led to his celebration by Sextus Propertius, as well as by Virgil in the Aeneid. Marcellus was born into the Claudii Marcelli, a plebeian...
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  • political commentary that Virgil had hoped to portray. The major schools of thought include the overarching idea that Virgil had written a story that parallels...
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