Vergil

Publius Vergilius Maro, known as Virgil, was a Roman poet. He was born in 70 BCE at Andes near Mantua and died in 19 BCE at Brundisium. His major works include the ten Eclogues, also known as the Bucolics, the Georgics, a didactic poem on agriculture, and the epic Aeneid. Virgil belonged to the circle of the patron Maecenas, to whom he dedicated the Georgics. The Aeneid, which gives literary form to the story of Aeneas’s flight from Troy and the origins of Rome, remained unfinished at Virgil’s death. Augustus ordered that the poem be preserved, contrary to Virgil’s final wish that the manuscript be destroyed.