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Virgil

2009-05-11T02:28:59Z

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[[Image:Gjcjyf68.jpg|right|thumb|A bust of Virgil, from the entrance to his tomb in Naples, Italy.]]
'''Virgil''' (Publius Vergilius Maro) lived from 70 to 19 BC. He was a well known and great [[Roman]] [[poet]] & [[philosopher]] who was born at Mantua in [[Italy]] and went to study in Cremona, Milan, and finally [[Rome]]. Maecenas was his patron (he paid for him to write and live) and he was friends with [[Octavian]], the future first emperor of Rome.

Three of Virgil's works are known to have been of note:

* ''Eclogues'' are pastoral poems about his own day
* ''Georgics'' is a didactic poem on farming, using the world of the farmer as a model for the world at large.
* ''[[Aeneid]]'' was the work he spent the last decade of his life on. It was an epic [[poem]], the about the wanderings of [[Aeneas]] after the [[Trojan War]] and his travels to found the city Rome, which would one day become the Roman Empire. It is this work for which he is most known in history.

In [[Dante]]'s classic ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', it is Virgil who as the noble [[pagan]] and symbol of wisdom who is the man to lead him through the lower levels of his journey, showing the respect that he still had in European culture over 1000 years after his death.

==Sources==

The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989

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Virgil

2009-05-11T02:28:36Z

DmitrisPapoulopoudos:

[[Image:Gjcjyf68.jpg|right|thumb|A bust of Virgil, from the entrance to his tomb in Naples, Italy.]]
'''Virgil''' (Publius Vergilius Maro) lived from 70 to 19 BC. He was a well known and great [[Roman]] [[poet]] & [[philosopher]] who was born at Mantua in [[Italy]] and went to study in Cremona, Milan, and finally [[Rome]]. Maecenas was his patron (he paid for him to write and live) and he was friends with [[Octavian]], the future first emperor of Rome.

Three of Virgil's works are known to have been of note:

* ''Eclogues'' are pastoral poems about his own day
* ''Georgics'' is a didactic poem on farming, using the world of the farmer as a model for the world at large.
* ''[[Aeneid]]'' was the work he spent the last decade of his life on. It was an epic [[poem]], the about the wanderings of [[Aeneas]] after the [[Trojan War]] and his travels to found the city Rome, which would one day become the Roman Empire. It is this work for which he is most known in history.

In [[Dante]]'s classic [[''The Divine Comedy'']], it is Virgil who as the noble [[pagan]] and symbol of wisdom who is the man to lead him through the lower levels of his journey, showing the respect that he still had in European culture over 1000 years after his death.

==Sources==

The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989

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Juvenal

2009-05-11T02:27:19Z

DmitrisPapoulopoudos:

[[Image:Juvenal.jpg|right]]
'''Juvenal''' (Aquinum 62-129) was a [[Latin]] poet and [[writer]]. It is because of Servius, in the late 4th century, that Juvenal received recognition.

It is accepted that Juvenal is the author of the 16 ''Saturae'', or ''Satires'' (They are divided into five books). This ''Satires'' are about the vices of the [[Roman]] world (the unnatural vices, the misery of poverty and the extravagance of the ruling classes). ''His influence on English poetry is best seen in Johnson's poems ‘London’ and ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’, while Dryden's versions of five of Juvenal's satires are among the best of his works.'' [http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9359264]

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== See also ==

*[[Roman Empire]]
*[[Julius Caesar]]
*[[Satire]]

== External links ==

*[http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&cdn=education&tm=275&f=20&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/juv%252Dsat1lat.html Satire 1 (Latin)]

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Juvenal

2009-05-11T02:26:55Z

DmitrisPapoulopoudos:

[[Image:Juvenal.jpg|right]]
'''Juvenal''' (Aquinum 62-129) was a [[Latin]] poet and [[writer]]. It is because of Servius, in the late 4th century, that Juvenal received recognition.

It is accepted that Juvenal is the author of the 16 ''Saturae'', or ''Satires'' (They are divided into five books). This "Satires" are about the vices of the [[Roman]] world (the unnatural vices, the misery of poverty and the extravagance of the ruling classes). ''His influence on English poetry is best seen in Johnson's poems ‘London’ and ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’, while Dryden's versions of five of Juvenal's satires are among the best of his works.'' [http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9359264]

::::::::::: ''Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?''

:::::::::: Who will guard the guards themselves?

== See also ==

*[[Roman Empire]]
*[[Julius Caesar]]
*[[Satire]]

== External links ==

*[http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&cdn=education&tm=275&f=20&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/juv%252Dsat1lat.html Satire 1 (Latin)]

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Juvenal

2009-05-11T02:25:42Z

DmitrisPapoulopoudos:

[[Image:Juvenal.jpg|right]]
'''Juvenal''' (Aquinum 62-129) was a [[Latin]] poet and [[writer]]. It is because of Servius, in the late 4th century, that Juvenal received recognition.

It is accepted that Juvenal is the author of the 16 "Satires" (They are divided into five books). This "Satires" are about the vices of the [[Roman]] world (the unnatural vices, the misery of poverty and the extravagance of the ruling classes). ''His influence on English poetry is best seen in Johnson's poems ‘London’ and ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’, while Dryden's versions of five of Juvenal's satires are among the best of his works.'' [http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9359264]

::::::::::: ''Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?''

:::::::::: Who will guard the guards themselves?

== See also ==

*[[Roman Empire]]
*[[Julius Caesar]]
*[[Satire]]

== External links ==

*[http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&cdn=education&tm=275&f=20&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/juv%252Dsat1lat.html Satire 1 (Latin)]

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Homer

2009-05-11T02:24:40Z

DmitrisPapoulopoudos:

[[Image:Homer.gif|right|200px]]
'''Homer''' (8th century B.C.) was a [[Greece|Greek]] poet and the author of the [[Iliad]] and the [[Odyssey]]. He was also supposedly [[blind]]. His name, in Greek, means "ransomed", so there is some thought he may have been taken by the Greeks as a hostage during war. Little is known about his life beyond such speculations, but his poems have been recognized as two of the greatest epics in Western culture for thousands of years. There has often been speculation that Homer did not originally exist, with the poems having perhaps come into being over years of collaboration by multiple poets. Scholars point to seemingly dramatic changes of pace and wording from one section to another in the poems. Nonetheless, a strong cultural tradition has grown up around the assumption of Homer's existence and the recognition of the essentially impossibility of determining the truth.

The Homeric epics became foundational elements of late [[Greeks|Greek]] and [[Hellenistic]] culture, as well as informing [[Rome|Roman]] notions of morality and history. The epics, together, taught the importance of ''[[arete]]'' - noble, virtuous warfare, without excess and with respect for one's fatherland - along with defining mankind's relation with the [[polytheism|gods]] in the Greek [[cosmology]], along with various other cultural notions. As an example of their importance, [[Alexander the Great]] is said to have slept with the two epics either under his pillow, or at his side.<ref>Plutarch, ''Vitae Parallae'', Life of Alexander.</ref>

[[Image:Rembrandt Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer.jpg|left|200px]] '''Rembrandt, Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer.'''
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== See also ==

*[[Literature]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30912593_ITM The poet who sings through us]

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