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A-Z: General definitions: Virgil
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Publius Virgilius Maro (70-19 BCE) was a Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid, an epic poem about the Trojan Wars. This influential text was based on the literary model of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
A major poem or fiction depicting events of significance in the history of a civilisation.
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
(9th or 8th century BCE). Greek poet to whom the highly-influential, epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, were attributed.
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