Diaeresis is a rhetorical term used in poetry to describe one aspect of the dactyllic hexameter which is contrasted with the caesura.

The Æneid of Vergil, from your About.com Guide

The passage by Vergil that was taken by early Christians to refer not to Augustus but to the birth of Jesus, from your About Guide

Greek poets timeline during the archaic period.

These are terms you should know when reading Homer's epics.

The Labors of Aeneas - What A Pain It Was To Found The Roman Race is an annotated adaptation of the Aeneid by Vergil. The Labors of Aeneas was written by Rose Williams.

Ovid was a prolific Roman poet. Augustus exiled Ovid for a song and an error -- in Latin, carmen et error, but we don't know what they were. Ovid died in Tomi in Romania.

A review of G.B. Cobbold's modern English prose translation of Vergil's Aeneid.

Definition of the poetic term caesura as contrasted with diaeresis