According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

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In the Aeneid by Virgil, Juno offers Aeolus the nymph Deiopea as a wife if he will release his winds upon the fleet of Aeneas.

This branch is the literary source of the " golden bough " in the Aeneid by Virgil.

In an invention of Virgil ( Aeneid VI ), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily ; long afterwards Aeneas confronts the sculpted golden doors of the temple.

** Aeneid by Virgil ( Roman mythology )

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

* Virgil, Aeneid vii, 324, 341, 415, 476.

Father-daughter incest was for many years the most commonly reported and studied form of incest .< ref > Aeneid by Virgil, Book VI: " hic thalamum invasit natae vetitosque hymenaeos ;" = " this being punished in Hades < nowiki ></ nowiki > invaded a daughter's private room and a forbidden marital relationship.

For example, Euler could repeat the Aeneid of Virgil from beginning to end without hesitation, and for every page in the edition he could indicate which line was the first and which the last.

In the Aeneid, Virgil writes that it is only when the dead have had their memories erased by the Lethe that they may be reincarnated.

Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues ; the Georgics, perhaps the most beautiful poem ever written about country life ; and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome.

References to Lykaian Pan are especially abundant in Latin poetry, as for instance in Virgil ’ s epic, the Aeneid: “ Lupercal / Parrhasio dictum Panos de more Lycaei ,” “... the Lupercal, named after the Parrhasian worship of Lykaian Pan ,” and in Horace ’ s Odes: “ Velox amoenum saepe Lucretilem / mutat Lycaeo Faunus ,” “ Often swift Faunus exchanges Lykaion for pleasant Lucretilis .”

In the Aeneid, Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line Equo ne credite, Teucri / Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, or " Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts.

Virgil employed the motif in the Aeneid.

In Aeneid Virgil describes the circumstances of Laocoön's death:

The Roman poet Virgil called it " that castled cliff, Monoecus by the sea " ( Aeneid, VI. 830 ).

This device is also used by later authors of literary epics, such as Virgil in the Aeneid, Luís de Camões in Os Lusíadas and Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock.

* Dactylic hexameter ( Homer, Iliad ; Virgil, Aeneid )

Virgil, in his Aeneid, states that Pisa was already a great center by the times described ; the settlers from the Alpheus coast have been credited with the founding of the city in the ' Etruscan lands '.

In the Aeneid, Virgil mentions rowing forming part of the funeral games arranged by Aeneas in honour of his father.

Virgil works the idea into his account of the Underworld in the sixth book of the Aeneid.

The journey of the Trojan survivor Aeneas and his resettling of Trojan refugees in Italy are the subject of the Latin epic poem The Aeneid by Virgil.

At Cumae, the Sibyl leads Aeneas on an archetypal descent to the underworld, where the shade of his dead father serves as a guide ; this book of the Aeneid directly influenced Dante, who has Virgil act as his narrator's guide.

One example from I. 105 describing a ship at sea during a storm has Virgil violating metrical standards to place a single-syllable word at the end of the line:

It has fallen to the lot of no other patron of literature to have his name associated with works of such lasting interest as the Georgics of Virgil, the first three books of Horace's Odes, and the first book of his Epistles.

Jerome ( d. 420 ) complained, " What has Horace to do with the Psalms, Virgil with the Gospels, Cicero with the Apostles?

Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.

Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably the Divine Comedy of Dante, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.

In the work of another author in late Republican Rome, Virgil writes in the second book of his Georgics, clearly referring to Lucretius, that " Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all fears, unavoidable fate, and the din of the devouring Underworld.

In an extension of the latter interpretation, it has been suggested that Virgil is conveying that the history of the world since the foundation of Rome is but a lie.

It was an allusion to the Roman poet Virgil towards the end of the speech, which has been remembered and gave the speech its common title:

Located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, the 250-unit hotel has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists, and actors, including Bob Dylan, Virgil Thomson, Charles Bukowski, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Jobriath, and Larry Rivers.

James argues that in her extended description of this dream, Cleopatra “ reconstructs the heroic masculinity of an Antony whose identity has been fragmented and scattered by Roman opinion .” This politically charged dream vision is just one example of the way that Shakespeare ’ s version of the historical tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra destabilizes and potentially critiques the imperialist Roman ideology inherited from Virgil ’ s epic and embodied in the mythic Roman ancestor Aeneas.

Virgil Thomson compiled a concert suite from his original score, which has been performed and recorded.

His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante.

In the 1st century BC., the Roman poet Virgil describes Charon in the course of Aeneas ’ s descent to the underworld ( Aeneid, Book 6 ), after the Cumaean Sibyl has directed the hero to the golden bough that will allow him to return to the world of the living:

However another account by Virgil in his Aeneid ( 3. 163f ), has Aeneas in a dream learn from his ancestral Penates that " Dardanus and Father Iasius " and the Penates themselves originally came from Hesperia which was afterward renamed as Italy.

He then ascends Mount Purgatory with them and stays with Dante in the Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit, after Virgil has returned to Limbo.

In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.

Neither Homer nor Virgil gives the reader any foreshadowing of Diomedes's death except for a passage in the Iliad in which Dione, Aphrodite's mother, comforts the goddess of love ( after she has been injured by Diomedes ), telling her daughter that " the man who fights the gods does not live long " and will not be welcomed home from war by his children on his lap ( 5. 407-409 ).

The county was home to the Carolinas – Virginia Tube Reactor during the 1960s, and since 1984 has been home to the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station.

When Virgil returns to Sparta as an attorney, he and Althea have separated and she has moved back to Philadelphia with the twins.

Virgil has been assigned the ZIP code 57379 and the FIPS place code 67500.

The commentary on Virgil has survived in two distinct manuscript traditions.

" Another student said of Corot, " the newspapers had so distorted Corot, putting Theocritus and Virgil in his hands, that I was quite surprised to find him knowing neither Greek nor Latin … His welcome is very open, very free, very amusing: he speaks or listens to you while hopping on one foot or on two ; he sings snatches of opera in a very true voice ", but he has a " shrewd, biting side carefully hidden behind his good nature.