Word: descent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Descent into Hades, from Virgil's AEneid, Book VI, will be read by Mr. Parker this evening in Sever...
Latin Readings. The Descent into Hades. Virgil's Aeneid, Book VI. Mr. Charles Parker. Sever...
...Parker reads the VI. Book of the Aencid, "The Descent into Hades," this evening in Sever...
Latin Readings. The Descent into Hades. Vergil's Aeneid, Book VI. Mr. C. P. Parker. Sever...
...poem contains a very beautiful episode of the descent of Istar, the goddess of love, into hell, which is also preserved in other tablets. It is a curious fact that parts of several editions of the poem have been found which lead to the belief that there were at one time many editions. The only place where the poem can be found is in Sayce's edition of Smith's "Chaldaean Genesis," which contains about one-third of the poem...