Pagine70–19 BC · near Mantua, Italy · also known as Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro
Virgil was Rome’s greatest poet. After the pastoral Eclogues and the farming poem Georgics, he spent his last decade on the Aeneid, the epic of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who flees burning Troy and journeys to Italy to found the Roman people. Dying with the poem unfinished, he asked for it to be burned; the emperor Augustus refused.
Begin with The Aeneid.
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Homer · Aesop · Sophocles · Euripides · Herodotus · Plato · Aristotle · Ovid · Marcus Aurelius
Virgil was Rome’s greatest poet. After the pastoral Eclogues and the farming poem Georgics, he spent his last decade on the Aeneid, the epic of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who flees burning Troy and journeys to Italy to found the Roman people.
The Aeneid is usually considered Virgil’s best-known work, followed by The Georgics, The Eclogues.
Most readers start with The Aeneid.
Both refer to the same writer. Other spellings and names include Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro.
Yes — 1 of Virgil’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.