19 BC · Skopia

Showing 11 works across all media from the 19 BC

Aeneid

19 BC · 484 pages

Aeneas carries his father out of burning Troy and is sent to found Rome, abandoning the queen who loves him. Duty wins, and Dido's grief is the greatest passage in Latin poetry.

★ 9.5

Poem · Epic poem

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 9.2

Poem · Epic poem

A fickle and changeable thing always is woman.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem

Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem

Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem

Her walk revealed her as a true goddess.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 3.2

Poem · Epic poem

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold!

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 2.3

Poem

If you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself.

Horace

Ars Poetica · 19 BC

★ 2.2

Poem · Epic poem

We sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy. Achates was the first to hail, "Italy! Italy!" my comrades echoed in cheerful greeting.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 2.2

Poem

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Horace

Ars Poetica · 19 BC

★ 2.1

Poem · Epic poem

I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy came destined an exile to Italy and the Lavinian beaches, a man much buffeted on land and on the deep by force of the gods because of fierce Juno's never-forgetting anger.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 2.1