In Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, the hero, Aeneas, travels to the underworld to see his father.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas is described as strong and handsome, but his hair colour or complexion are not described.

He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

The Roman writer Virgil's characterization of the Volscian warrior maiden Camilla in the Aeneid borrows heavily from the myth of the Amazons.

Attempts to find classical or Late Latin influence or analogue in Beowulf are almost exclusively linked with Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

The premier examples of its use are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic example of Latin hexameter:

* Oral reading of Virgil's Aeneid, by Robert Sonkowsky, University of Minnesota.

It was chosen from Virgil's epic poem Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.

The Annals became a school text for Roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by Virgil's Aeneid.

Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto (" unnameable " who appeared in Virgil's Aeneid ), Megaera (" grudging "), and Tisiphone (" vengeful destruction ").

His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events.

The story of Dido and Aeneas derives from the original source in Virgil's epic the Aeneid.

Incest is mentioned and condemned in Virgil's Aeneid Book VI: hic thalamum invasit natae vetitosque hymenaeos ; " This one invaded a daughter's room and a forbidden sex act ".

The Greek historian Herodotus stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid, and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemnos stele.

The nymph Opis is mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid.

Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the Old Iranian books the Gathic Avesta and Yasna, the Roman national epic, Virgil's Aeneid, and the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

His death is graphically related in Book II of Virgil's Aeneid.

Its motto uno avulso non deficit alter ( when one is torn away another succeeds ) is from the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid and is relevant first in the more overarching sense of having replaced the Monks of Medmenham ; then in establishing the continuity of the society through a process of constant renewal of its graduate and undergraduate members.

The Aeneid is widely considered Virgil's finest work and one of the most important poems in the history of western literature.

He was for some time engaged in the production of a magnificent folio manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, and in the course of that work had begun to translate the poem into English verse.

The name Amaryllis is taken from a shepherdess in Virgil's pastoral Eclogues, from the Greek (), meaning " to sparkle ".

( what then ), taken from Virgil's Eclogues: " So what, if Amyntas is dark?

The loss of his family farm and the attempt through poetic petitions to regain his property have traditionally been seen as Virgil's motives in the composition of the Eclogues.

This was supposedly inspired by Virgil's Eclogues: ... mate Gryphons with mares, and in the coming age shy deer and hounds together come to drink .., which would also be the source for the reputed medieval expression, if indeed it was one.

* Tityrus, the shepherd in Virgil's Eclogues, or Virgil himself.

There, in 1789, he published translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics.

Virgil's Eclogues were performed as sung mime in the 1st century, and there is evidence of the pastoral song as a legitimate genre of classical times.

Patterson explains that Servius ' Commentary is essential to understanding the reception of Virgil's Eclogues.

It is taken from Virgil's Eclogues, Eclogue 1.

Of Lord Bowen's literary works besides those already indicated may be mentioned his translation of Virgil's Eclogues, and Aeneid, books i .- vi., and his pamphlet, The Alabama Claim and Arbitration considered from a Legal Point of View.

The first appearance of a tomb with a memorial inscription ( to Daphnis ) amid the idyllic settings of Arcadia appears in Virgil's Eclogues V 42 ff.

John Gay ridiculed the eclogues of Ambrose Philips in his Shepherd's Week and Mary Wortley Montagu wrote six " Town Eclogues ", substituting the fashionable society of contemporary London for Virgil's rural Arcadia.

* Corydon ( character ), stock-name for a shepherd in pastorals, especially a shepherd whose love for a boy is described in Virgil's Eclogues

Gay adapted Juvenal, as Pope had already adapted Virgil's Eclogues, and throughout the Augustan era the " updating " of Classical poets was a commonplace.

He also translated Virgil's first two Eclogues.

The painting illustrates the line from Virgil's Eclogues X. 69, Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori (" Love conquers all ; let us all yield to love !").

In emulation of Virgil's first work, the Eclogues, Spenser wrote this series of pastorals to begin his career.