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Virgil (70-19 BC) is considered one of the greatest poets of ancient Rome. Undoubtedly his most famous is the “Aeneid” – the epic story of Aena search “for a new country – following a model similar to Homer’s epic poems” Iliad “and” The Odyssey. “Upon the death of Virgil, however, , was the “Aeneid” was left unfinished. Even if a job unfinished, “Aeneid” is one of the most important poems in the history of Western literature and is widely regarded as the best work of the poet. Presumably, when Virgil recited passages from the game before the Emperor Augustus, was the effect that fall to the Emperor’s sister, Octavia, causing fainting.

 
“The Aeneid”, consists of 12 books that describe the journey of Aeneas – the legendary ancestor of Romulus and Remus (founders of Rome) – who fled from Troy to Italy, struggles with the local princes turn and find a city on which Rome was built. The work was commissioned by Augustus in order, and presumably the work model of Homer have – the “Odyssey” is similar to the first six books of the “Aeneid” and “Iliad” and maintains the same relationship to the end of the six books Virgil’s great work. Throughout history, Virgil tells of the mythical events as “an attempt to escape from Troy and Juno, in the destiny of Aeneas Aeneas interfere with the conduct of its fleet on the ground in Africa, and gain the favor of Aeneas, Dido, Queen of Carthage, the story of the betrayal troy greek involvement of a giant wooden horse, the death of Laocoon, the flight of Aeneas and his family and the journey of the fleet, to put it on the floor of Carthage, leaving Dido to Aeneas and his subsequent suicide, the death of Anchises (father of Aeneas), journey to the underworld, Aeneas, the Trojan settlement in Latium and the epic battle between Aeneas and Turnus.

 
Virgil’s “Eclogues” (also known as “Eclogues” known) is a collection of 10 poems about topics in the rustic style of the greek poet Theocritus. After the publication of these works has been performing on stage popular Roman songs. With a combination of political commentary and eroticism, which has contributed to the fame of Virgil. Eclogues 1 and 9 are concerned with issues of land seizures that often came in the imperial period and the consequent impact on the field. Two three Eclogues are heavily dependent on agriculture and the treatment of homosexual themes and panerotic. Eclogue 4 – known as the “Messianic eclogue” – combines the birth of a child with a golden age of advertising. Eclogues five eight refer to the myth of Daphne – the legendary flutist pastor, and the inventor of pastoral poetry – in a singing competition. Eclogue 6 describes the mythological Silenus sing – his companion and tutor of Dionysus. 7 eclogue is a competition between poets heated. Eclogue 10 describes the life of one of Virgil’s contemporaries, the poet Cornelius Gallus – believe that a man has, in the return of lands confiscated from Virgil are instrumental.

 
The “Georgics” includes four books that deal with agricultural issues – the title of “Georgics” comes from the Greek word for books, or growth of the crop (Volume 1), the cultivation of trees, “The country of change.” (Volume 2) compared to cattle and horses (Book 3) and the bee (Volume 4). It is said that Virgil was convinced that a lot of time on the “Georgics” of Maecenas – a political adviser and confidant of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus). In addition to the “bucolic”, “Georgics” and “The Aeneid”, a collection of small poems to have survived in the Renaissance. Therefore, there were also many surviving examples of an “Aeneid”, 1428 E Maffeo says the vegetarian ‘was this collection of works, the attention of Sebastian Brandt (1457-1521) captured – Renaissance German humanist and satirist – l’ early 16 th century, when John was asked to change the Grüninger collection of works by Virgil for the first illustrated edition. Brandt had studied in Basel and was a Doctor of Laws in 1489 In the wake of the Renaissance intellectual, Brandt was attracted to humanist circles and gained some popularity with his Latin poetry. His literary efforts continued rapidly and in 1494, his “Ship of Fools” (“The Ship of Fools”) was published – was a work that has found wide recognition and was identified as an important precursor of the Reformation.

 
It was by laboratories in relation Grüninger release has been prepared the artwork for the edition of 1502 and the information that leaves us with the title of “master workshops in late Grüninger” for the artist, who is responsible. The honorary title “Master”, which indicates the import of the illustrations that accompany the 1502 edition of “Opera.” The suite is a positive tour de force – the inclusion of many illustrations of two pages and a full-page woodcuts and integrated into the text. In large numbers, contain more than 210 recordings in the suite, which deserves to be an important task, but it is totally complete presentation of the texts of Virgil, which marks the set as a masterpiece. Douglas is one of a series of contributions to the “Zeitgeist”, the museum project -. A collection of art and antiques, the online presentation for the exhibition of the museum focuses on works of art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and artists with illustrations of what is connected as the Golden Age of Enlightenment . A number of resources for learning and research are included in the collection and cataloging of the future development of additional artifacts and art. Online sales Fine Arts posters, reproductions and greeting cards, chips and a substantial financial support for the project.