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Virgil
1st-century-BC Roman poet
This article is about the ancient Roman poet.
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For the grammarian, see Virgilius Maro Grammaticus. For other uses, see Virgil (disambiguation).
Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin:[ˈpuːbliʊswɛrˈɡɪliʊsˈmaroː]; 15 October 70 BC – 21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil (VUR-jil) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epicAeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars generally regard these works as spurious, with the possible exception of a few short pieces.
Already acclaimed in his own lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middl
