d English poet Geoffrey Chaucer told part of the story of the Aeneid in his House of Fame (1386?) In the 16th century, English poet Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene (1589) was indebted to Virgil for his conception of the epic as a national poem. Virgil's style and technique of versification influenced English poets John Milton, in the 17th century, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in the 19th century.
             When Roman armies conquered the remnants of Alexander's empire in 168 BCE, they also conquered the Greek city-states. The Romans soon realized the uniqueness of what they had overcome. "Captured Greece captured its fierce conqueror," wrote the Roman poet, Horace. His point was that Romans recognized something in Greek culture that was more impressive than anything Rome itself had achieved, in spite of Rome's unprecedented military success. The result is that Roman culture adapted itself to the model of Greece, at least in art, religion, and literature. Roman statues, temples, and public buildings were rebuilt in imitation of those
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