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Virgil

Also known as Publius Vergilius Maro, Vergil, Mantuan Swan, Swan of Mantua

Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), 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 (or Bucolics), 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.

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Virgil was an ancient Roman poet who lived during the reign of Emperor Augustus and wrote three of the most celebrated works in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. His writing had such lasting influence that he became one of the most important figures in Western literary tradition, shaping how later generations understood poetry and storytelling.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1896
Died: 1989
Works: 91

Top works

Dix portraits
The state of music
Eighteen portraits
A Salute to Virgil Thomson
Music reviewed, 1940-1954

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States

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Listeners: 5,227
Total plays: 45,742

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5 total works indexed

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Nationality: IT, XT, XX
Role / Field: Poets, Poet, Poetas, Poeci, Dzejnieks, Poezja
Language: lat, ita
Gender: Male

Recorded by 48 libraries

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Quotes

“O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.”
“Trahit sua quemque voluptas.”
“Nunc omnis ager, nunc omnis parturit arbor;Nunc frondent sylvae, nunc formosissimus annus.”
“Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.”
“Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.”
“Non omnia possumus omnes.”

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Key facts

Writer.image: Virgil mosaic in the Bardo National Museum (Tunis) (12241228546).jpg
Writer.caption: A 3rd-century Roman mosaic of Virgil seated between Clio and Melpomene (from Hadrumetum [Sousse], Tunisia)
Writer.birth_name: Publius Vergilius Maro
Writer.birth_date: 15 October 70 BC
Writer.birth_place: Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Republic
Writer.death_date: 21 September 19 BC (aged 50)
Writer.death_place: Brundisium, Italy, Roman Empire
Writer.occupation: Poet
Writer.movement: Augustan poetry
Writer.notable_works: EcloguesGeorgicsAeneid

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Commons category: Virgil
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Commons Creator page: Virgil
name in native language: Publius Vergilius Maro
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Works in European collections

32 objects attributed to Virgil, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The Eneyda of Publio Virgilio Maron,... translated in the eighth rhyme and verse Castilian by the dotor Gregorio Hernandez of Velasco... reformed and silenced with much study and care of the same translator, whose are also the translations of the suppression of the Eneyda of Mafeo Veggio, of a former student on the will of Virgilio, the Letter of Pythagoras and the declaration of the proper names and words and places La

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Contents

Traditional biography
Biographical sources
Family and birth
Site of Andes
Spelling of name
Childhood and education
Poetic career
Burial and tomb
Works
Early works
''Eclogues''
''Georgics''
''Aeneid''
Reception of the ''Aeneid''
Legacy and reception
Antiquity
Late antiquity
Middle Ages
Renaissance and early modernity
Legends
Notes
Citations
Works cited
Further reading
External links

Already acclaimed in his lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting major influence on Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position in history in The House of Fame (1374–85), describing him as standing on a pilere / that was of tinned yren clere ("on a pillar that was of bright tin-plated iron"), and in the Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory, Dante pays tribute to Virgil with the words (Inf. I.86–7) ("thou art alone the one from whom I took the beautiful style that has done honour to me"). In the 20th century, T. S. Eliot famously began a lecture on the subject "What Is a Classic?" by asserting as self-evidently true that "whatever the definition we arrive at, it cannot be one which excludes Virgil – we may say confidently that it must be one which will expressly reckon with him".