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Three of Virgil's works are known to have been of note:

Three of Virgil's works are known to have been of note:

* ''Eclogues'' are pastoral poems about his own day.  The fourth "Messianic" eclogue was perceived by some as foretelling the coming of Christ,<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/377185/Messianic-eclogue Britannica.com]</ref> ensuring that Virgil's works were well-read through the [[Middle Ages]] to the present.

* ''Eclogues'' are pastoral poems about his own day.  The fourth "Messianic" eclogue was perceived by some as foretelling the coming of Christ,<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/377185/Messianic-eclogue Britannica.com]</ref> ensuring that Virgil's works were well-read through the [[Middle Ages]] to the present.

* ''Georgics'' is a didactic poem on farming, using the world of the farmer as a model for the world at large.

* ''Georgics'' is a didactic poem on farming, using the world of the farmer as a model for the world at large.

* ''[[Aeneid]]'' was the work he spent the last decade of his life on.  It was an epic [[poem]], the about the wanderings of [[Aeneas]] after the [[Trojan War]] and his eventual settlement in Italy, where his descendants would one day found the city of Rome and eventually the Roman Empire.  It is this work for which he is best known in history.

* ''[[Aeneid]]'' was the work he spent the last decade of his life on.  It was an epic [[poem]], the about the wanderings of [[Aeneas]] after the [[Trojan War]] and his eventual settlement in Italy, where his descendants would one day found the city of Rome and eventually the Roman Empire.  It is this work for which he is best known in history.