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Virgil
Also known as Publius Vergilius Maro, Vergil, Mantuan Swan, Swan of Mantua
Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Some minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars regard these as spurious, with the possible exception of some short pieces.
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Virgil was an ancient Roman poet who lived during the reign of Emperor Augustus and wrote three of the most celebrated works in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. His writing had such lasting influence that he became one of the most important figures in Western literary tradition, shaping how later generations understood poetry and storytelling.
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- Born
- 1896
- Died
- 1989
- Works
- 91
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- Dix portraits
- The state of music
- Eighteen portraits
- A Salute to Virgil Thomson
- Music reviewed, 1940-1954
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- United States
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Works in European collections
32 objects attributed to Virgil, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
The Eneyda of Publio Virgilio Maron,... translated in the eighth rhyme and verse Castilian by the dotor Gregorio Hernandez of Velasco... reformed and silenced with much study and care of the same translator, whose are also the translations of the suppression of the Eneyda of Mafeo Veggio, of a former student on the will of Virgilio, the Letter of Pythagoras and the declaration of the proper names and words and places La
L' Eneide di Virgilio
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- Biographical sources
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- Site of Andes
- Spelling of name
- Childhood and education
- Poetic career
- Burial and tomb
- Works
- Early works
- ''Eclogues''
- ''Georgics''
- ''Aeneid''
- Reception of the ''Aeneid''
- Legacy and reception
- Antiquity
- Late antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Renaissance and early modernity
- Legends
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Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Some minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars regard these as spurious, with the possible exception of some short pieces.
Already acclaimed in his lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting major influence on Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position in history in The House of Fame (1374–85), describing him as standing on a pilere / that was of tinned yren clere ("on a pillar that was of bright tin-plated iron"), and in the Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory, Dante pays tribute to Virgil with the words (Inf. I.86–7) ("thou art alone the one from whom I took the beautiful style that has done honour to me"). In the 20th century, T. S. Eliot famously began a lecture on the subject "What Is a Classic?" by asserting as self-evidently true that "whatever the definition we arrive at, it cannot be one which excludes Virgil – we may say confidently that it must be one which will expressly reckon with him".
