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Position:Home>History> Latin history?Question: Latin history!? 1!. Where and when was Vergil born!?
2!. What is on Vergil's tombstone!? 3!. What was Vergil's dying wish regarding the Aeneid!? 4!. Describe Vergil's relationship with Augustus!. 5!. What is the subject of the Georgics and Bucolics!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1!. Born on 15th October 70 BC at Andes, a "Pagus" near Mantua!. 2!. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces!. 3!. He made Varius, his litarary Executor promise to burn the book but Augustus ordered that this wish be disregarded and the poem be published in it's unfinished state!. 4!. He seems to have had a good relationship with Augustus who sent him many gifts along with other friends, Maecenas was another, which made Virgil a rich man with houses in Rome, near Naples and a villa in Nola!. 5!. Georgics - a poem in 4 books on farming!. The concluding section of each book stands out - 1!. the virtues of country life, 2!. the cattle plague in Noricum, 3!. this concerns Aristaeus and Orpheus, 4!. the oppositionbetween the successful conquest of nature through hard work and also the sadness of loss and failure!. Bucolics - these were cowherd songs made up of 10 short poems!. The general title was changed to the Eclogues in the English translation and not by Virgil!.Www@QuestionHome@Com 1) October 15, 70 B!.C!.E!. - 19 B!.C!.E!. Born in the village of Andes (modern Pietole!?), near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul “this side”, i!.e!., south of the Alps, present northern Italy) 2) The epitaph on his tomb in Posilipo near Naples was: Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope!. Cecini pascua, rura, duces (Mantua gave birth to me, the Calabrians took me, now Naples holds me; I sang of pastures [the Eclogues], country [the Georgics] and leaders [the Aeneiad])!. 3) Vergil died with the epic unfinished!. Augustus ordered Vergil’s literary executors, Varius and Tucca, to disregard Vergil’s own wish that the poem be destroyed and to publish it with as few editorial changes as possible!. 4)Wealth and power were not part of his inheritance, but he had the good fortune to win the friendship and patronage of influential men!. When, in 41 B!.C!., his estate was appropriated as part of a distribution of land to war veterans, Vergil was able to recover it, through the assistance of two influential men, Pollio and Cornelius Gallus!. Maecenas and even the first Roman emperor, Augustus, came to support Vergil's poetic endeavors!. 5) Vergil's Pastoral poems, known as Eclogues or Bucolics, and Vergil's treatise on the 4 aspects of farm-life (tillage, horticulture, cattle-breeding, and bee-keeping), known as the Georgics!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |