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The 39 pages that link to Virgil, each with the reason it gives.

• HomerRelated: The Aeneid adapts Homeric epic conventions and links Roman origins to the Trojan story.

• Dante AlighieriRelated: Dante casts Virgil as his guide through Hell and most of Purgatory.

• LivyRelated: Virgil and Livy shaped Augustan-era accounts of Rome’s past through different literary forms.

• PastoralRelated: The Eclogues became a model for later European pastoral writing.

• Latin literatureRelated: His epic became a defining model for Roman literary identity and later European poetry.

• AeneidBroader topic: He composed the poem over the final years of his life.

• Battle of ActiumRelated: The Aeneid recasts Actium as a world-historical victory in Rome’s legendary past.

• HoraceRelated: Virgil was Horace’s contemporary and a fellow member of Maecenas’s literary circle.

• John DrydenRelated: Dryden translated the Aeneid and used Virgil to define the possibilities of English poetic translation.

• Augustan literatureBroader topic: His poetry became the central model of Augustan literary achievement.

• Mark AntonyRelated: The Aeneid helped shape the Augustan cultural memory that cast Antony as an eastern threat.

• Divine ComedyRelated: His guidance embodies reason and classical learning within the poem’s Christian journey.

• PetrarchRelated: Petrarch revered Virgil and pursued a classical poetic reputation partly through his own Latin epic.

• OvidRelated: Ovid inherited epic conventions from Virgil while giving mythic transformation a different emphasis.

• Dactylic hexameterRelated: He adapted Greek hexameter to Roman epic and Latin poetic style.

• Dionysius of HalicarnassusCompared with: The Aeneid’s Trojan foundation story differs from Dionysius’s emphasis on Rome’s Greek connections.

• Roman mythologyRelated: His epic made mythic ancestry a central story of Roman identity.

• Roman literatureBroader topic: The Aeneid became Rome’s most influential national epic and a model for later poetry.

• Romulus and RemusRelated: The Aeneid connects Rome’s distant origins to Aeneas and the Trojan past.

• Isoperimetric problemRelated: The Aeneid helped transmit the Dido story later associated with the isoperimetric problem.

• Nicolas PoussinRelated: Poussin drew on Virgilian episodes, including the story of Aeneas and Dido.

• Edmund SpenserRelated: Spenser adapts classical epic’s national and poetic ambitions for Elizabethan England.

• Epic simileRelated: He adapted the Homeric simile tradition for Latin epic.

• Literary allusionRelated: The Aeneid adapts Homeric material, offering an early model of literary inheritance through reference.

• Mock-heroicRelated: His epic offered later writers another authoritative style to imitate and distort.

• Treaty of BrundisiumRelated: His fourth Eclogue is often discussed alongside the agreement’s contemporary political hopes.

• AeneasRelated: Virgil shaped Aeneas into the epic protagonist of Rome’s divinely guided origins.

• EnniusRelated: Virgil inherited an epic tradition whose Latin hexameter Ennius had helped establish.

• TheocritusRelated: Virgil adapted Theocritus’s pastoral poetry in the Eclogues and helped transmit it to Latin literature.

• ClassicsBroader topic: The Aeneid shows how Roman literature reworked Greek epic for a Roman political world.

• Classical LatinBroader topic: His poetry became a central literary standard in Roman and later European education.

• Luís de CamõesRelated: Camões adapts the Aeneid’s national-foundation epic to Portugal.

• Torquato TassoRelated: Tasso’s poem engages with Virgil’s account of heroic warfare and national destiny.

• Gaius MaecenasRelated: Maecenas supported Virgil and connected him with the Augustan circle.

• Jerusalem DeliveredRelated: Tasso adopts and reshapes Virgilian epic structures for a Christian subject.

• Apollonius of RhodesRelated: The Aeneid engages with Greek epic traditions that Apollonius helped shape.

• Giosuè CarducciRelated: Virgil’s poetry offered Carducci a central model of Roman literary authority.

• La AraucanaRelated: The poem engages classical epic conventions associated with Virgil’s work.

• War of ActiumRelated: Augustan poetry later recast Actium as a providential victory for Rome.