The so-called Appendix Vergiliana represents a collection of minor poetry (some of it most attractive) of the fifty years (or more) after Virgil, attributed to him to gain credit and ensure their survival. Just possibly (though unlikely) two or three...

Virgil (70-19 BC), or Publius Vergilius Maro, was the greatest Roman poet. The Romans regarded his "Aeneid," published two years after his death, as their national epic. Virgil's life spans the bloody upheavals of the last decades of the violent Roman...

. Among all the Latin poets, Virgil (ca. 70–19 B.C.) was the most “classical”—in the literal sense. Students read and relished his writings, copied and interpreted the Latin, and memorized and canonized his ideas from the...

70-19 B.C. The foremost Roman poet of his day. Born in Mantua, he wrote, among other works, on agriculture in the Georgics (On farming). This didactic poem, written in hexameter verse, was published in 29 B.C. in four books. It was frequently cited by...

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BCE – September 21, 19 BCE), later called Vergilius, and known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a classical Roman poet. He was the author of epics in three modes: the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Life Of Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro was born in a small country village, Andes, near Mantua on October 15, 70 B.C. Tradition says his mother's name was Magia Polla, The daughter of a certain man of property, Magius, for whom Virgil's...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Aeneid Introduction The Aeneid is an epic. Webster's dictionary defines epic as follows: "A long narrative poem about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes of high station, such as the Iliad or Odyssey, with a background...

What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner reveals answers to such questions.As the Web encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wikipedia encourages participants to adopt online user names,...

Today is Saturday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2007. There are 338 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard...

Van Doren was one of the most prolific men of letters in twentieth-century American writing. His work includes poetry (his Collected Poems 1922–1938 won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940), novels, short stories, drama, criticism, social commentary, and the editing of a number of popular anthologies. He wrote accomplished studies of Shakespeare, John Dryden, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, and served as literary editor and film critic for the Nation during the 1920s and 1930s. Van Doren'...

In the following essay, Shairp examines changing religious practices during the reign of Augustus, how these changes are embodied in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, and how Virgil's theological views impacted western literature.

Perhaps the most influential poet and critic to write in the English language during the first half of the twentieth century, Eliot is closely identified with many of the qualities denoted by the term Modernism: experimentation, formal complexity, artistic and intellectual eclecticism, and a classicist's view of the artist working at an emotional distance from his or her creation. He introduced a number of terms and concepts that strongly affected critical thought in his lifetime, among them the ide...