Virgil was perhaps the greatest Ancient Roman poet and his greatest work was the Aeneid, the story in epic verse of Trojan her Aeneas's journey from Troy to the area where Rome was founded.

(Several ancient cultures seasonally adjusted their ... that has snuck into a handful of trivia books—concerns Virgil, the Roman poet and author of the Aeneid. The story goes that Virgil had ...

The ancient story of the Aeneid, by Latin poet Virgil, describes the story’s hero Aeneas encountering harpies on his quest to found Rome, saying: Maiden faces have these birds, foulest filth ...

The Cave of Sibyl is associated with the Cumaean Sibyl. According to the ancient Roman poet Virgil writing in 19 BC, this was where the legendary Cumaean Sibyl prophetess lived. This was among the ...

The poet Virgil observed, “So vast a toil it was to found the State of Rome.” In ancient times, the city of Rome astonished everyone. The Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus ...

And in Gladiator II, he and writer David Scarpa mine similar subtext from ancient mythology ... the verse hails from the poet Virgil and his epic The Aeneid. The poem follows the story of the ...

The idea of Rome as the Eternal City started in ancient Roman literature. Poets like Virgil and Ovid wrote about Rome’s ...