Vergil's Aeneid

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:adaptation film The Aeneid (1962)
opera Les Troyens by Berlioz
gptkbp:author gptkb:Virgil
gptkbp:commissionedBy Augustus
gptkbp:contains Aeneas's descent to the Underworld
the love affair of Dido and Aeneas
the prophecy of Rome's future
the war in Italy
gptkbp:dateWritten 29–19 BCE
gptkbp:firstLine Arma virumque cano
gptkbp:genre gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Dante's_Divine_Comedy
gptkb:John_Milton's_Paradise_Lost
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Homer's_Iliad
gptkb:Homer's_Odyssey
gptkbp:legacy central to Western literary canon
gptkbp:literaryDevice gptkb:prophecy
ekphrasis
gptkbp:location gptkb:Underworld
gptkb:Carthage
gptkb:Latium
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Aeneas
gptkbp:manuscript Vatican Library
gptkbp:motif gptkb:explorer
gptkb:war
divine intervention
gptkbp:notableCharacter gptkb:Jupiter
gptkb:Venus
gptkb:Dido
gptkb:Juno
gptkb:Anchises
gptkb:Ascanius
gptkb:Turnus
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 12
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Italy
gptkb:Troy
gptkbp:structure dactylic hexameter
gptkbp:studiedIn classical studies
literature courses
gptkbp:subject founding of Rome
gptkbp:theme gptkb:duty
fate
piety
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:John_Dryden
gptkb:Robert_Fagles
gptkb:Sarah_Ruden
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:AP_Latin
gptkb:Further_Voices_in_Vergil's_Aeneid
gptkb:Words_and_the_Poet:_Characteristic_Techniques_of_Style_in_Vergil's_Aeneid
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Vergil's Aeneid