A-Z: General definitions
- Vale of Tears
- Valediction
- Valedictorian
- Valley
- Valley of the shadow of death
- Vampire
- Vanity of Vanities
- Vassal
- Vatican
- Vatican Council
- Veil
- Venerate
- Veneration
- Vengeance
- Veni, Creator Spiritus
- Venial Sin
- Venite
- Venus
- Verb
- Verbs - auxiliary
- Verbs - dummy auxiliary
- Verbs - infinitive
- Verbs - inflections
- Verbs - modal auxiliary
- Verbs - verb phrase
- Vermeer
- Vernacular
- Vernacular Translations and Paraphrases
- Verse
- Verse Drama
- Versification
- Vesper
- Vespers
- Vesta
- Vestment
- Vestry
- Vicar
- Vicarage
- Vicarious
- Vice
- Victoria
- Victorian
- Vigil
- Vignette
- Vine
- Vineyard
- Virgil
- Virgin Birth
- Virgin Mary
A-Z: General definitions: Virgil
Definition
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.
