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The Arrival of Aeneas in Carthage Rustic capitals from a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid Ancient Roman coin Aeneas and the Shade of Creusa Dido and Aeneas Limosin, Léonard: Aeneas Ancient Roman mosaic showing the poet Virgil seated and writing, flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, displayed in a decorative border.
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Aeneid

epic by Virgil
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Aeneid, Latin epic poem written from about 30 to 19 bce by the Roman poet Virgil. Composed in hexameters, about 60 lines of which were left unfinished at his death, the Aeneid incorporates the various legends of Aeneas and makes him the founder of Roman greatness. The work is organized into 12 books that relate the story of the legendary founding of Lavinium (parent town of Alba Longa and of Rome). The town is founded...

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