- Born
- 15 October 70 BCE
- Died
- 21 September 19 BCE
- Lived in
- Near Mantua, Rome, Naples, Greece & Brundisium
Virgil was a Roman poet whose Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid became central works of Latin literature. His poetry joined pastoral beauty, political upheaval, labour, love, fate, and the imagined origins of Rome.
A LESSER-KNOWN DETAILAncient biographers say Virgil wanted the unfinished Aeneid burned after his death. Emperor Augustus reportedly overruled the request and ordered the poem preserved with minimal editing.
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