70 – 19 B.C.

Virgil

Worth knowing

Rome's national poet, writing under Augustus. The Aeneid gives Rome a founding story running back to Troy.
He asked on his deathbed for the poem to be burned, since it was unfinished. Augustus overruled him.
Later Christians read his fourth Eclogue, about a child whose birth begins a golden age, as an unknowing prophecy of Christ. Constantine read it that way himself.

In Scholar’s Dream, Virgil has one book

Virgil’s quotes in the game

Every quotation from Virgil that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →

In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.

“Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate…” — Virgil’s epic gave Rome a Trojan pedigree and Augustus a mandate.
Virgil, Aeneid 1.1 (trans. Dryden, public domain).public domain

How it works in the game: the move Arms and the Man

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In the gameRome’s founding, sung backward from Troy.

Learned byAeneid (Lv 1)

Who else was alive

Virgil against everyone else in the game.

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David Homer The prophets of Israel Herodotus Thucydides Plato Aristotle Cicero Virgil Matthew Paul John Mark Pliny the Elder Clement of Rome Ignatius An early Christian community Polycarp Claudius Ptolemy Hermas Justin Martyr Aristides Quadratus Melito Unknown authors writing under borrowed names Irenaeus The author of the Epistle to Diognetus Athenagoras Clement of Alexandria Tertullian Marcus Minucius Felix Origen Cyprian Plotinus Lactantius Eusebius Athanasius Eustathius of Sebaste Apollinaris of Laodicea Cyril of Jerusalem Epiphanius of Salamis Gregory of Nazianzus Basil of Caesarea Eunomius of Cyzicus Gregory of Nyssa Ambrose of Milan Jovinian Augustine The Macedonians Helvidius

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