Context and question: Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italyin Roman mythology the founding act of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.
What is the name of Homer's most famous epic?
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Context and question: But early in the 16th century, a brilliant new red appeared in Europe. When the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and his soldiers conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519-1521, they discovered slowly that the Aztecs had another treasure beside silver and gold; they had the tiny cochineal, a parasitic scale insect which lived on cactus plants, which, when dried and crushed, made a magnificent red. The cochineal in Mexico was closely related to the Kermes varieties of Europe, but unlike European Kermes, it could be harvested several times a year, and it was ten times stronger than the Kermes of Poland. It worked particularly well on silk, satin and other luxury textiles. In 1523 Cortes sent the first shipment to Spain. Soon cochineal began to arrive in European ports aboard convoys of Spanish galleons.
Who sent the first shipment to Spain in 1532?
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Context and question: The earliest examples of neoclassical architecture in Hungary may be found in Vac. In this town the triumphal arch and the neoclassical facade of the baroque Cathedral were designed by the French architect Isidor Marcellus Amandus Ganneval (Isidore Canevale) in the 1760s. Also the work of a French architect Charles Moreau is the garden facade of the Esterhazy Palace (17971805) in Kismarton (today Eisenstadt in Austria). The two principal architect of Neoclassicism in Hungary was Mihaly Pollack and Jozsef Hild. Pollack's major work is the Hungarian National Museum (18371844). Hild is famous for his designs for the Cathedral of Eger and Esztergom.
What French architect designed Hungarian Cathedral in the seventeenth century?
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