person
Virgil
also: Tityrus
Rome's supreme poet, evoked by his works: 'Tityrus' (the Eclogues), 'the harvests' (the Georgics), and 'the arms of Aeneas' (the Aeneid).
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.15 Tityrus
Virgil, evoked by his three works: Tityrus (the Eclogues), 'the harvests' (Georgics), and 'the arms of Aeneas' (the Aeneid).
- The Art of Love §3.17 exiled Aeneas
Virgil, whose 'Aeneid' on the wandering Aeneas and the origins of Rome is the most glorious work of Latium.
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.4 bard of the Aeneid
Virgil, author of the Aeneid; even he, Ovid says, would have found the matter of the triumph a heavy burden to sustain in verse.
- The Cure for Love §12 Virgil
The poet of the Aeneid; Ovid claims elegy owes as much to himself as epic owes to Virgil.
- Sorrows §2.1 author of your Aeneid
Virgil, whose Aeneid 'brought arms and the man to the Tyrian bed' — the love of Dido, its most-read part.
- Sorrows §4.10 Virgil I only saw
Virgil, whom Ovid, much younger, glimpsed but never knew.