Birth date: 
70 BC
Death date: 
19 BC
Birth town: 
Country: 
Rome

Vergil

or Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) 70 B.C.–19 B.C., Roman poet, born. Andes district near Mantua, in Cisalpine Gaul Vergil turned to rural poetry of a contrasting kind, realistic and didactic. In his Georgics , completed in 30 B.C., he seeks, as had the Greek Hesiod before him, to interpret the charm of real life and work on the farm. His perfect poetic expression gives him the first place among pastoral poets. For the rest of his life Vergil worked on the Aeneid , a national epic honoring Rome and foretelling prosperity to come. The adventures of Aeneas are unquestionably one of the greatest long poems in world literature.

Poems by this Poet

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Eclogue 1 Meliboeus Tityrus 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 10 Gallus 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 2 Alexis 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 3 Menalcas Daemoetas Palaemon 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 4 Pollio 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 5 Menalcas Mopsus 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 6 To Varus 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 7 Meliboeus Corydon Thrysis 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 8 To Pollio Damon Alphesiboeus 31 July 2013
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Eclogue 9 Lycidas Moeris 31 July 2013
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