regularly advised by Maecenas and Agrippa during his principate, who greatly assisted him during periods of doubt.
Agrippa or Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, born around 63 BC and died in March of 12 BC, was a Roman general and politician educated alongside young Caius Octavius Thurinus, the future Emperor Augustus. His personal journey intertwines, from 44 BC, with that of Julius Caesar's great-nephew and now adopted son. Loyal lieutenant, builder, warrior, son-in-law, and presumptive heir to the empire, Agrippa was part of all military and political struggles of his closest friend.
The Muses are, in Greek mythology, the nine daughters of Zeus, father of the gods, and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, who preside over the liberal arts, particularly poetry.
Virgil is a Latin poet contemporary with the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of Emperor Augustus' reign. Among his works, he wrote Aeneid, a famous epic recounting the trials of the Trojan Aeneas.
Horace is a Latin poet born on December 8th, 65 BC in Venosa in southern Italy and died on November 27th, 8 BC in Rome.
Livy, also known as "The Paduan" was born in 59 BC or 64 BC, and died in 17 AD in his hometown of Padua. He is a historian of ancient Rome and author of the monumental work, Roman History.
Alexander the Great, or Alexander III, born July 21, 356 BC in Pella and died June 11, 323 BC in Babylon, is a king of Macedonia and one of the most famous figures of Antiquity. His model is Achilles, whom he is compared to during his victories.
Achilles is a legendary hero of the Trojan War and a significant character in the Iliad. His mother allegedly dipped him in the river Styx, the underworld river, when he was a child, making him invulnerable. He is a great warrior who dies in battle while taking Troy.
Troy is an ancient city in Asia Minor and is the main site of the mythological events of the Trojan War in Homer's epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer is a poet of the late 8th Century BC, He was known as "The Poet" by the ancients. The first two works of Western literature, the Iliad and The Odyssey, are ascribed to him.
Ovid, or Publius Ovidius Naso in Latin, born in 43 BC in Sulmo in the centre of Italy and died in 17 or 18 AD in exile in Tomis, modern-day Constanţa in Romania, is a Latin poet who lived during the birth of the Roman Empire. His best-known works are The Art of Love and Metamorphoses. He was exiled by Augustus for an uncertain reason.
Triumvirate originally refers to an office of the Roman magistracy composed of three men. The first triumvirate was a private political alliance.
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