Portrait of Virgil

Classical

Virgil

70 BC – 19 BC

Roman poet (1st century BC)

  • Ancient Rome
  • Classical Antiquity
  • Augustan poetry
UGC NET importance

About

Publius Vergilius Maro, 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, 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.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by Armando Mancini (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons.

Life on the Timeline

70 BC – 19 BC
800 BCToday

Major Works

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