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Answer for the clue "Virgil poem ", 6 letters:
aeneid
Alternative clues for the word aeneid
- "If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell" source
- It involves a trip to the underworld
- Epic poem with 9,896 lines
- Twelve-book Trojan tale
- Poem with the story of the Trojan horse
- Trojan War epic
- Epic poem with Queen Dido
- Inspiration for Dante
- Virgil work
- Work that includes a visit to the underworld
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.