Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and
was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in
manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he vent back north for
a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have
written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian
manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his
perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly
artificial bucolic poems, the "Eclogues," which imitated freely
Theocritus's idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before
29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works, the four hooks
of Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Virgil's remaining
years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic
the "Aeneid," on the traditional theme of Rome's origins through
Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the Emperor Augustus's rule, the poem
is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek
and Roman literature, philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in
spirit. Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from
Greece, where he had intended to round off the "Aeneid," He had
left in Rome a request that all its twelve books should be
destroyed if he were to die then, but they were published by the
executors of his will.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two
volumes.
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