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Virgil's Aeneid: An Epic Poem Is Born

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AENEAS
The Trojan prince at the heart of the epic, Aeneas carries his elderly father on his back out of burning Troy, an image Virgil uses to anchor the whole poem's theme of piety and duty.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DIDO
Queen of Carthage, Dido offers Aeneas refuge on his long voyage westward. Their tragic parting is one of the most emotionally devastating passages in all of Latin literature.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TROY
The Aeneid opens in the smoldering aftermath of Troy's fall, it is from that ruin that Aeneas sets sail, carrying the sacred household gods of the city to a new homeland.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PIETY
The Latin word 'pietas', duty to gods, family, and state, is Aeneas's defining quality, and the single virtue Virgil returns to again and again across all twelve books of the Aeneid.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Virgil's Aeneid: An Epic Poem Is Born

On October 15, 70 BC, the poet Virgil was born near Mantua, in northern Italy, and the ancient world gained the voice that would one day shape how Rome understood its own destiny. His Aeneid follows the Trojan hero Aeneas across storm-tossed seas, through the halls of Carthage, and into the heart of Italy, all driven by fate and the heavy call of duty. Written in the grand hexameter of Homer but charged with a distinctly Roman gravity, the Aeneid became one of the most revered literary works in all of Western tradition, copied, studied, and recited for more than two thousand years.

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