From Homeric romance to Augustan epic: Virgil's revision of the Odyssey -- Remembrances of Dido: Medieval and Renaissance transformations of the Aeneid -- Paulo maiora canamus: epic anticipations and alternatives in The shepheardes calender -- From Roma Aeterna to the New Hierusalem: the Virgilian origins of Book I of The faerie queene -- Tempering the two Didos: romance and allegorical epic in Book II -- "Diverse folk diversely they demed": Virgilian alternatives in Book III.