The biographical tradition says that Virgil and Maecenas took turns reading the Georgics to Octavian upon his return from defeating Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.

Virgil was born in 70 BC, and his 17th birthday therefore took place in 53 BC.

Lombard's parents divorced and her mother took the three children to Los Angeles in 1914, where Lombard attended Virgil Jr. High School and then Fairfax High School.

Some contemporary critics, particularly Virgil Thomson, also took Toscanini to task for not paying enough attention to the " modern repertoire " ( i. e., 20th-century composers, of which Thomson was one ).

Virgil Earp in turn took Holliday's walking stick: by not going conspicuously armed, Virgil was seeking to avoid panic in the citizenry of Tombstone, and in the Clantons and McLaurys.

Virgil took the idealized Sicilian rustics that had first appeared in the Idylls of Theocritus and set them in the primitive Greek district of Arcadia ( see Eclogues VII and X ).

Additionally, Blackmore took John Milton as his model, rather than Virgil, and he admitted in his preface that his previous book had been too adherent to the Classical unities.

While at Tulare Union, Mathias took up the decathlon in early 1948, at the suggestion of his track coach, Virgil Jackson.

Soon it was adopted by other manufacturers ; Chrysler's Virgil Exner in particular took the tailfin idea on board.

Although popular western lore claims Claiborne was said to have fought less than admirably, firing one or two wild shots toward Virgil Earp, Claiborne said later that he was not armed at the time, and none of the Earps took him to be so.

* Sen. Virgil Pearman pleaded guilty after 1993 indictment charging that he took an illegal $ 3, 000 campaign contribution.

He incorporated Latin into his teaching shortly after the birth of the couple's son, Eugene, in May 1815, and soon Margaret was translating simple passages from Virgil.

A mysterious personality in Serbian and European cultural history, he began his work in the field of art by translating Rig-Veda and the works of Virgil into Serbian.

In its earliest form, " grammar school " referred to a school that taught students to read, scan, interpret, and declaim Greek and Latin poets ( including Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Ennius, and others ).

Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.

In handling this theme, Virgil follows in the didactic ( instructive ) tradition of the Greek poet Hesiod's Works and Days and several works of the later Hellenistic poets.

Bion's influence can be seen in numerous ancient Greek and Latin poets and prose authors, including Virgil and Ovid.

Well before Virgil, the story is also alluded to in Greek classical literature.

They are not all based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.

His character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the Persian name Achaemenes as Greek and extracting a meaning " he who waits with affliction ".

According to the Roman poets Virgil ( Aeneid, book v. 864 ) and Ovid, the Sirenum scopuli were three small rocky islands where the Sirens of Greek mythology lived and lured sailors to their deaths.

The name Iulus was popularised by Virgil in the Aeneid: replacing the Greek name Ascanius with Iulus linked the Julian family of Rome to earlier mythology.

However, since his benefactor Maecenas was a native Etruscan, Virgil portrayed Mezentius as a tyrant, attributing to him personally the evils which the Greek authors had previously accused the Etruscans of, such as torture and savagery, an ethnic prejudice already present in the Homeric Hymns.

Amongst the books he collected are early editions in Greek and Latin of the poets and playwrights Aeschylus, Aristotle, Homer, Livy, Ovid, Pindar, Sophocles and Virgil.

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The students were taught rhetoric based on the Rhetorica ad Herennium, and Greek centred around the works of Homer and Virgil.

Stone read Virgil and Sophocles at Quaboag in 1842 and studied Latin and Greek grammar.

" 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.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth books are devoted to Virgil, dwelling respectively on his learning in religious matters, his rhetorical skill, his debt to Homer ( with a comparison of the art of the two ) and to other Greek writers, and the nature and extent of his borrowings from the earlier Latin poets.

The Roman poet Virgil, in interpreting the Greek mythos, held that the hero Enceladus was buried beneath Etna by the goddess Athena as punishment for disobeying the gods ; the mountain's rumblings were his tormented cries, the flames his breath and the tremors his railing against the bars of his prison.

Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Bobby " Werner " Strete, Mod Fun, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Phil Lynott, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Alejandro Escovedo, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Walker, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, Vivian Stanshall, Richard Hell, Jobriath Boone, Little Annie, Rufus Wainwright, Lance Loud, Abdullah Ibrahim / Sathima Bea Benjamin / Jean Grae, Vasant Rai, Jacques Labouchere, and Leonard Cohen.

The names of " Virgil " and " Kermit " were proposed, but Santa Fe would not accept these names, for the same reason.

In this work Pope imitates Edmund Spencer's Shepheardes Calendar, while utilizing classical names and allusions aligning him with Virgil.

The form of the Saturnalia is copied from Plato's Symposium and Gellius's Noctes atticae ; the chief authorities ( whose names, however, are not quoted ) are Gellius, Seneca the philosopher, Plutarch ( Quaestiones conviviales ), Athenaeus and the commentaries of Servius and others on Virgil.

Virgil and Vergil are the most common modern English names used for the Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro ( 70 BC – 19 BC ).

Virgil names himself " Static " and, armed with his wits and powers, became a superhero.

This generation links to the names of Csaba Gyorffy, Iuliu Jenei, Călin Gane, Marcel Goran, Pete Cadar, Caesar Ardeleanu, Adrian Hârlab and Virgil Grecea – a generation consisting of some of the most long term team members.

The names in Justin are undoubtedly more correct than in Virgil ; for Servius remarks, that Virgil here, as in other cases, changed a foreign name into one more convenient to him, and that the real name of Sichaeus was Sicharbas, which seems to be identical with Acerbas.

Vibius Sequester ( 4th or 5th century ), is the author of an alphabetical list of geographical names occurring in the Roman poets, with special reference to Virgil, Ovid and Lucan.

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.

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.

Journalist Bee Wilson states that the image of a community of honey bees " occurs from ancient to modern times, in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; Tolstoy, as well as by social theorists Bernard Mandeville and Karl Marx.

As a boy he knew Virgil by heart and composed a number of poems in Italian and Latin.

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

The verse form itself then was little changed as the quality of a poet's hexameter was judged against the standard set by Virgil and the other Augustan poets, a respect for literary precedent encompassed by the Latin word aemulatio.

** Aeneid by Virgil ( Roman mythology )

Similarly, it was commonly believed by Medieval people that other ancient figures like the poet Virgil, astronomer Ptolemy and philosopher Aristotle had been involved in magic, and grimoires claiming to have been written by them were circulated.

Classics writer Simone Weil ranked the conduct of the Gracchi second out of all the known cases of good hearted conduct recorded by history for classical Rome, ahead of the Scipios and Virgil.

Like the French epics, such as the Chanson de Roland, Homeric poetry is indigenous and, by the ease of movement and its resultant simplicity, distinguishable from the works of Dante, Milton and Virgil.

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.

Besides her knowledge of history and languages, she could also recite Virgil and Terence by heart.

In it, he is seen by Dante and his guide Virgil being punished in Hell's Eighth Circle ( Bolgia 1 ) by being driven to march through the circle for all eternity while being whipped by devils.

Ivens was, however, known for his anti-fascist and other propaganda films, including The Spanish Earth, for the Spanish loyalists, co-written with Ernest Hemingway and music by Marc Blitzstein and Virgil Thomson.

Shortly afterwards, false reports spread in mid-March 1939 by the Romanian minister in London, Virgil Tilea, that his country was on the verge of an immediate German attack, led to a dramatic U-turn in British policy of resisting commitments in Eastern Europe.

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.

The Trojans, according to Virgil, disregarded Laocoön's advice and were taken in by the deceitful testimony of Sinon ; in his resulting anger, Laocoön threw his spear at the Horse.

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

The change in seriousness of purpose between the Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil was in a great measure the result of the direction given by the statesman to the poet's genius.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

The above lines are of Virgil taunting the Minotaur in order to distract him, and reminding the Minotaur that he was killed by Theseus the Duke of Athens, and instructed by the monster's " sister " Ariadne.