Today I will tell more about The Eneida (Aeneid) made by Ivan Kotlyaresvky in 1798. With fantastic illustrations by Anatoly Bazylevych, this book was published in the 1960s and became one of the most essential books in 🇺🇦 culture. With the help of I'll tell you why.

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cover i did for a catalan translation of the aeneid 💥

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Jean Baptiste Wicar (22 January 1762 – 27 February 1834,) was a French painter..shows Vergil reciting his poem to the emperor Augustus..-Virgil Reading the Aeneid

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Jean Baptiste Wicar (22 January 1762 – 27 February 1834,) was a French painter..shows Vergil reciting his poem to the emperor Augustus..-Virgil Reading the Aeneid

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There’s a very old literary strategy at play here called “delay of anticipation,” which just means forestalling an inevitable conflict in order to add tension to the forthcoming battle. You can see it used extensively in Grecco-Roman epics like The Iliad and The Aeneid. 2/12

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Vergil's Aeneid interacts frequently with the work of Callimachus. This late-18th-century painting by Jean-Baptiste Wicar shows Vergil reciting his poem to the emperor Augustus.

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FINALLY I can talk about my upcoming project, These Stars Will Guide You Home. Links to prototype and KS page below.

It's a inspired by the Aeneid and Odyssey, and will be illustrating it.

The front cover he made for it kicks ass

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Day 6: 'bough'. What else could it be but J.M.W. Turner's 'Golden Bough', a depiction of an episode from Virgil's Aeneid, and the inspiration for J.G. Frazer's study of myth.

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I constantly go on about my favourite comparative moment between the Odyssey and the Aeneid: the stag.
In Odyssey Book 10, Odysseus kills a stag and carries it back to his men…

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In 1967 Anatolii Bazilevych (1926 - 2005) created illustrations to "Eneida" (Ukrainian for "Aeneid") written by Ivan Kotlyarevsky. It is a burlesque poem, written in 1798. This mock-heroic poem is the first literature work published in the modern Ukrainian language.

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Serenity, illustration for Book VI of the Aeneid https://t.co/S0aUrqaYQN

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Serenity, illustration for Book VI of the Aeneid

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‘Queen in heaven and hell’ ~ Hecate in the Aeneid. As a goddess of boundaries, she is a goddess of liminal spaces. 🖼 HEKATE, Maxmilián Pirner, 1901.
🖼 Hecate (Detail of Jupiter and Semele), Gustave Moreau, c.1894.

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Serenity, illustration for Book VI of the Aeneid

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Serenity, illustration for Book VI of the Aeneid

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