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[[Image:Gjcjyf68.jpg|right|thumb|A bust of Virgil, from the entrance to his tomb in Naples, Italy.]]

[[Image:Gjcjyf68.jpg|right|thumb|A bust of Virgil, from the entrance to his tomb in Naples, Italy.]]

'''Virgil''' (Publius Vergilius Maro) lived from 70 to 19 BC.  He was a great Roman poet & philosopher who is best known for writing the epic [[poem]], the [[Aeneid]].  Other works include the Georgics and the Eclogues.

'''Virgil''' (Publius Vergilius Maro) lived from 70 to 19 BC.  He was a well known and great [[Roman]] poet & [[philosopher]] who was born at Mantua in Italy and went to study in Cremona, Milan, and finally Rome.  Maecenas was his patron (he paid for him to write and live) and he was friends with [[Octavian]], the future first emperor of Rome.

 

 

* ''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 travels to found the city Rome, which would one day become the Roman Empire.  It is this work for which he is most known in history.

 

In [[Dante]]'s classic [[The Divine Comedy]], it is Virgil who as the noble [[pagan]] and symbol of wisdom who is the man to lead him through the lower levels of his journey, showing the respect that he still had in European culture over 1000 years after his death.

 

 

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