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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Courage!

"They can conquer who believe they can."


Virgil - October 15, 70 BC- September 21,19 BC. Roman / Latin Poet. The Aeneid he wrote and took his last ten years is an epic poeom that became the Roman Empire's national epic. It tells about the Trojan hero Aeneas escape to Italy and his love to Dido the queen of Cathage when she welcomed him during his escape. He wrote six of the last books on the light of Homer's Odyssey. He was born in a village called Andes south of the Alps; north of Italy nowadays. He studied rhetoric astronomy and medicine in Rome. He abanoned astronomy soon to philosophy.

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