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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 fortelling the coming of Christ <ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/377185/Messianic-eclogue</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 fortelling 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.
* ''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 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.
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.
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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==References==
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The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989
* The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989
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