Virgil's Aeneid

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Latin literature classical epic epic poem

Virgil's Aeneid is a Latin epic poem that narrates the legendary journey of Aeneas from the ruins of Troy to Italy, laying a mythic foundation for the origins of Rome.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Aeneid 4
Aeneid commentaries 1
The Aeneid 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin literature ⓘ
classical epic ⓘ
epic poem ⓘ
approximateDateOfComposition 1st century BCE ⓘ
associatedWith Roman imperial ideology ⓘ
author Virgil ⓘ
centralTheme duty versus passion ⓘ
fate and destiny ⓘ
foundation of Rome ⓘ
pietas ⓘ
commissionedBy Augustus ⓘ
containsEpisode Aeneas's journey to the underworld ⓘ
Trojan War ⓘ
surface form: fall of Troy

love affair of Aeneas and Dido ⓘ
war in Latium ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Roman Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Rome
featuresCharacter Anchises ⓘ
Ascanius ⓘ
Dido ⓘ
Turnus ⓘ
featuresDeity Juno ⓘ
Jupiter ⓘ
Neptune ⓘ
Venus ⓘ
genre epic poetry ⓘ
influenced Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ
surface form: Dante's Divine Comedy

Renaissance epic poetry ⓘ
medieval Latin literature ⓘ
influencedBy Homer's Iliad ⓘ
Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
literaryPeriod Augustan age ⓘ
literaryTradition Roman national epic ⓘ
mainCharacter Aeneas ⓘ
narrativeForm dactylic hexameter ⓘ
numberOfBooks 12 ⓘ
openingWords Arma virumque cano ⓘ
originalLanguage Latin ⓘ
preservedIn manuscript tradition ⓘ
purpose to provide a mythic origin for Rome ⓘ
setting Carthage ⓘ
Italy ⓘ
Troy ⓘ
status canonical work of Western literature ⓘ
structure first half modeled on the Odyssey ⓘ
second half modeled on the Iliad ⓘ
studiedIn Latin curricula ⓘ
classical studies ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dido Building Carthage → basedOn → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aeneid
Cacus → describedIn → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aeneid
Greco-Roman mythology → hasMythCycle → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Aeneid
Argonautica → influenced → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
Homer's Odyssey → influenced → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
subject surface form: Divine Comedy
La Henriade → influencedBy → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
The House of Fame → influencedByWork → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
Dardanus → mentionedIn → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
Elysium → mentionedIn → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
Cumae → mentionedInWork → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aeneid
John Baskerville → notableWork → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
this entity surface form: edition of Virgil (1757)
Virgil → notableWork → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aeneid
Virgil → subjectOf → Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
this entity surface form: Aeneid commentaries