Nu; the lowercase form of the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; uppercase: Ν.
The ancient Greeks did not have lowercase letters in their alphabet; the lowercase letters were not invented until the ninth century CE, i.e. about eleven hundred years ago.
Letters of the Greek alphabet were also used as numerals; the letter nu represented the number 50 and was written as a simple ν or as nu followed by an acute accent, ν'.
A valley in eastern Greece in Thessaly between Mount Olympos (Olympus) and Mount Ossa.
(70-19 BCE) The Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro is commonly referred to as Virgil and is most noted as the author of the epic poem the Aeneid.
The Aeneid was written between the years 29-19 BCE during the reign of Augustus Caesar, i.e., Octavian, and was an undisguised attempt to re-instill the noble values on which Rome had been founded and to give new faith to the Roman people after the flagrant excesses of Julius Caesar and Marcus Antony.
The Aeneid tells the story of the Greek hero, Aineias (Aeneas), the final battle of Troy and the eventual founding of Rome by Troy's survivors; it's impossible to read the Aeneid without comparing it to the Greek epics such as The Iliad and The Odyssey; one glaring difference is that The Iliad and The Odyssey were written for the "people" and the Aeneid was written for an emperor; Virgil's loyalties aside, he created an important work of art and gave us a glimpse into the mind of the imperial Romans; Virgil died before he could finish the Aeneid but Augustus Caesar had the unfinished poem copied and distributed.
A spiral ornament used on capitals in Ionic architecture; from the Latin words voluta (scroll) and volvere (to turn).
