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* ''[[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.
 
* ''[[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.
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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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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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