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• Georgics — The Georgics, published in 29 BCE, is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil. Its supposed subject is rural life and farming, and the work is generally categorized as a didactic poem. DescriptionThe work contains 2,188 hexametric verses… …   Wikipedia

• The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene — is a poem by the Scottish northern renaissance poet Robert Henryson that adapts and develops the Greek myth which most famously appears in two classic Latin texts, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the Georgics of Virgil. Jacopo del Sellaio, Orpheus… …   Wikipedia

• The Queen's Book of the Red Cross — was published in November 1939 in a fundraising effort to aid the Red Cross during World War II.The book was sponsored by Queen Elizabeth, and itscontents were contributed by fifty British authors and artists.List of authors and artists*Authors… …   Wikipedia

• Great Books of the Western World — is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. The list of… …   Wikipedia

• Warton, Thomas, The Elder; Joseph; And Thomas, The Younger — (1688 1800)    • Thomas, the elder, the father, 1688 1745    The son of Antony Warton, vicar of Godalming, Surrey, he graduated, B.A. (1709 10), M.A. (1712), and B.D. (1725) from Magdalen College, Oxford. His Jacobite sympathies made him popular… …   British and Irish poets

• Golden age — The term Golden age is best known from Greek mythology and legend but can also be found in other ancient cultures (see below). It refers either to the highest age in the Greek spectrum of Iron, Bronze, Silver and Golden ages, or to a time in the… …   Wikipedia

• Vergilius Romanus — The Vergilius Romanus (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867), also known as the Roman Vergil, is a 5th century illuminated manuscript of the works of Virgil. It contains the Aeneid, the Georgics, and some of the Eclogues. It… …   Wikipedia

• Scott Moncrieff Prize — The Scott Moncrieff Prize, named after the translator Charles Scott Moncrieff, is an annual £2,000 literary prize for French to English translation, awarded to one or more translators every year for a full length work deemed by the Translators… …   Wikipedia

• Bugonia — The word bugonia (or bougonia ) is Greek in origin, meaning ox birth . It denotes the mythical practice by which bees are produced from the carcasses of dead oxen a misunderstanding similar to the notion of spontaneous generation . The process is …   Wikipedia

• Virgil — For other uses, see Virgil (disambiguation). Publius Vergilius Maro A profile of Virgil with laurel wreath Born October 15, 70 BC Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Republic Died …   Wikipedia

• Virgil — /verr jeuhl/, n. 1. Vergil. 2. a male given name. * * * or Vergil orig. Publius Vergilius Maro born Oct. 15, 70, Andes, near Mantua died Sept. 21, 19 BC, Brundisium Greatest of Roman poets. The well educated son of a prosperous provincial farmer …   Universalium