Timeline
Lifetime:
1582 -
1650
Passed: ≈
374 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Phineas Fletcher
Books by Phineas Fletcher
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
Poetry
Romance
Mythology
Love
Mythology
Desire
Venus
Aeneas
Roman Mythology
Erotic
Classical Mythology
Fletcher
Anchises
Epyllion
Spenserian Stanza
This poem, originally titled "Venus and Anchises" by its author, John Fletcher, tells the story of the goddess Venus's encounter with the young Anchises, leading to the birth of Aeneas, the hero of Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid. The work, written in...