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Poem with the story of the Trojan horse
Answer for the clue "Poem with the story of the Trojan horse ", 6 letters:
aeneid
Alternative clues for the word aeneid
- Poem in 12 books
- Source of the Trojan horse story
- Classic poem written in dactylic hexameter
- Epic featuring the Trojan Horse
- Epic featuring a Trojan War survivor
- Origin of the phrase "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
- Virgil's classic epic
- Classic work famously translated by John Dryden
- Tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War
- Latin epic poem
Usage examples of aeneid.
If we add together the three great poems of antiquity -- the twenty-four books of the Iliad, the twenty-four books of the Odyssey, and the twelve books of the Aeneid -- we get at the dimensions of only one-half of The Faerie Queen.
Lactantius not only made no objection, but decided to come along, a scroll of the Aeneid firmly in his hand.
Likewise in the classical afterworlds of the Odyssey and Aeneid, Odysseus and Aeneas readily recognize and can talk with the shades of those recently dead.
In his Aeneid, Vergil reported that while on their way to devastate Italy, the Trojans encountered harpies.
Charles Thomson, the perennial secretary of Congress, replaced Bartons Deo favente with a motto borrowed from Virgils Aeneid Annuit coeptis (God has nodded at the undertaking)and another motto borrowed from Virgils EcloguesNovus ordo saeclorum (A new order of the ages is born).
He remembered something from his Catholic prep school, a passage from Virgil's Aeneid that had defined his mission almost two thousand years before: Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem.