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Virgil & Horace

Virgil & Horace. Writers of Rome. By Zaporah Waddler & Maddie King. Life of Virgil. 70 B.C-19 B.C Virgil ( Publius Vergilius Maro ) was born on October 15, 70 B.C.E in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. His father was a prosperous landowner who could afford

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Virgil & Horace

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  1. Virgil & Horace Writers of Rome By Zaporah Waddler & Maddie King.

  2. Life of Virgil 70 B.C-19 B.C Virgil (PubliusVergiliusMaro) was born on October 15, 70 B.C.E in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. His father was a prosperous landowner who could afford through education for Virgil. Virgil went to school at Cremona and Milan, and then went to Rome where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric. He eventually completed his studies in Naples.

  3. Books of Virgil Virgil composed pastoral poems known as Ecologues. He also composed Georgics, which were instructive work on farming through a townsman’s view on the country. Both were composed between 42 and 37 B.C.E.

  4. The Aeneid • Virgil also composed the Aeneid. The Aeneid was a latin epic poem written by Virgil in 29-19 BC. It is a legendary story of Aeneas who was a Trojan soldier who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

  5. Horace 65 B.C.-8 B.C. Quintus HoratiusFlaccus (known in the English-speaking world as Horace) was born on December 8, 65 B.C. in Venusia. He was the leading Roman lyric poem during the time of Augustus. Horace started doing poetry during the Augustan period which was 29-8 B.C. In about 46 BC Horace went to Athens, attending lectures at the Academy. In march 44 BC, Horace joined Crutus army and was appointed as tribunusmilitum.

  6. Horace During 44 BC, Horace was also working on Book I of the Satires (10 poems written in hexameter verse and published in 35 BC). The Satires were focused on Greek roots. They stated Horace's rejection of public life firmly and aimed at wisdom through serenity. Horace published his Epodes and a second book of eight Satires in 30-29 BC, after Augustus defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The Odes was the second book of the Satires which included 88 short poems in 23 B.C.

  7. List of Books Horace Wrote • Odes- written in 23-13 BC • Epodes- published in 30 BC • Satires- published in 35 and 30 BC • ArsPoetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones- published in 18 BC • Epistles- published in 20 and 14 BC • Carmen Saeculare- published in 17 BC

  8. The Influence they both had on English Literature Virgil Horace • Virgil’s Aeneid influenced another great poet by the name of John Milton with his Paradise Lost. • Horace had the same influence on the people as did Virgil.

  9. Citations • http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2237&HistoryID=ac01 • http://www.online-literature.com/virgil/ • http://virgil.org/ • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/virgil.shtml • http://www.roman-colosseum.info/roman-life/roman-literature.htm • http://preterhuman.net/texts/other/crystalinks/horace.html

  10. The End!

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