When Babylonian storytellers told of Gilgamesh, when Homer sang of Odysseus, when Vergil wrote of Aeneas, they were speaking about their first times. |
Longfellow wrote in hexameters, in the tradition of the classical masters of he epic, Homer and Vergil. |
With Tate he has memorable conversations about Vergil, and especially the Georgics. |
Vergil is a kind of contemplative who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day. |
How, given the institutional emphasis on the primacy of Vergil, did Ovidian epyllion become the preferred form of this period's poetry? |
Dante's twin brother Vergil tags along for the ride in the range of additional game modes bundled onto the disc. |