Virgil
The years 70-19 BCE
What are the years Virgil lived?
Who is Homer?
This poem is Rome's national epic
What is the Aeneid?
An epyllion that describes how a shepherd is wakened from a nap by a mosquito
What is The Culex (The Gnat)?
This Greek warrior is the primary focus of the Iliad.
Who is Achilles?
Aeneas seeks out this god at the beginning of book six.
Who is Apollo?
An Eclogue that describes the expected birth of a child who will usher in a new age
What is the Messianic?
This king is the main character of the Odyssey.
Who is Odysseus?
Aeneas is traveling to the Underworld to get advice from this person.
Who is his father (Anchises)?
The most polished verse that Virgil ever produced, a propaganda piece commissioned by the Roman Empire because they wanted to restore agriculture
What is the Georgics?
Who is Calypso?
The Underworld splits into these two paths.
What is Tartarus and Elysium?