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...In Virgil’s Aeneid the holm oak is a dark tree, a marker beneath which Aeneas will find a white sow with piglets when he finally lands in Italy....
...Letter in response to this report: Virgil’s oft-quoted quip about Greeks and gifts / From Professor Costas Milas, Management School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK...
...Dante drew on Virgil, Karl Marx on Aristotle....
...The way they expressed the Céline girl changed radically from season to season — from the Canadian freak folk band Timber Timbre to Method Man and Mary J Blige....
...Additional reporting by Mary Childs in New York...
...Downing, Little, Brown, RRP£25, 416 pages Still: A Poetic Response to Photographs of the Somme Battlefield, by Simon Armitage, Enitharmon Press, RRP25, 80 pages Daniel Todman teaches history at Queen Mary...
...Its landscape tradition goes back at least to Horace and Virgil, who tended to regard the pastoral and rural as natural and wilderness as supernatural and monstrous....
...Peter Frankopan Author of ‘The Silk Roads’ I absolutely loved Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile). It is a sparkling book that brings the past to life....
...That was the view of the great philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) in his astonishing essay “On Some Verses of Virgil”....
...A superior example is Mr Banks in Mary Poppins (pictured)....
...He listens reverently when Virgil, his guide through the underworld, proudly states that he was born under the great Julius....
...Beer points out the homoerotic episodes in Ovid or Virgil to which Milton’s poems refer, but she must know that Renaissance male friendship positively encouraged reference to Latin and Greek models of homosociality...
...Neither William of Orange’s consort, Mary, nor his successor, Queen Anne, had been able to produce an heir, so by 1714 the crown was once again up for grabs....
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