Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
Virgil (English)
Look Virgil, untouched grapevines, voluptuous leaves!
And the peerless beauty of words,
soul-deep as the cicadas you can hear at this very moment
dancing to the orchestra of honeysuckles!
Translated into English by Norton Hodges
Notes:
The most famous poet of ancient Rome, Virgil (or Vergil), born 15 October 70 B.C. near Mantua (Italy), died 21 September 19 B.C., wrote the Aeneid, one of the greatest epic poems in human history. Raised on a farm in northern Italy, he made his way to Rome as an adult and gained fame for his collections of poems Eclogues (around 39 B.C.) and Georgics (29 B.C.). Virgil died before finishing the work, but it was published (tradition has it that he wanted it destroyed after his death) and became a revered text for centuries. In medieval Europe Virgil became an almost mystical personage, with magic powers attributed to him and his work (he is used as the guide to Hell in Dante's Inferno). The Renaissance revived scholarly study of the Aeneid and Virgil is still considered the greatest of Roman poets.
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Virgil (English)
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