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Timeline
Lifetime:
1582 -
1650
Passed: ≈
374 years ago
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Writer
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Phineas Fletcher
Books by Phineas Fletcher
![Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises Cover image](/image/noimage.jpeg)
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid. The poem is an epyllion like Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and S...