aeneid
Speech parts
1. aeneid - Noun
2. Aeneid - Proper noun
Meaning
The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas.
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Examples
About Douglas as a translator there may be two opinions; about his Aeneid (Prologues and all) as an English book there can be only one. Here a great story is greatly told and set off with original embellishments which are all good – all either delightful or interesting – in their diverse ways.
According to Suetonius, Nero abandoned the idea when some army officers openly refused to obey his commands, responding with a line from Vergil 's Aeneid : "Is it so dreadful a thing then to die?"
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 the progenitor of the Roman people.
After minor modifications, the Aeneid was published.
Although the Aeneid casts itself firmly into the epic mode, it often seeks to expand the genre by including elements of other genres such as tragedy and aetiological poetry.
Ancient commentators noted that Virgil seems to divide the Aeneid into two sections based on the poetry of Homer; the first six books were viewed as employing the Odyssey as a model while the last six were connected to the Iliad.