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Virgil

Type Figure Region Italy Time -70–-19 Also known as Publius Vergilius Maro、Virgil、Publius Virgil、维吉尔

Virgil (70–19 BCE), the greatest Latin poet of Rome's Augustan age, born near Mantua, whose Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid established the classics o…

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  1. -70–-50Mantua · VenetoBorn in the countryside near Mantua in northern Italy, he received an education in rhetoric and philosophy; during the civil wars his home was affected by land confiscation policies, and he later moved to Rome to join literary circles.
  2. c. -42–-29Rome · LazioUnder the patronage of Maecenas he composed the Eclogues and Georgics, using pastoral and agricultural themes to depict social change after the civil wars, and won Octavian's favor, becoming a central literary figure of Augustan cultural policy.
  3. -29–-19Rome · LazioOver more than a decade he composed the twelve-book epic Aeneid, modeled on Homeric epic, narrating the myth of Aeneas founding Rome; before his death he asked that the unfinished manuscript be burned, but friends intervened and it was published, becoming the highest exemplar of Latin literature.

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