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Virgil<\/strong> (70\u201319 BCE) is regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic,\u00a0The Aeneid<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>(written about 29 BCE, unfinished). Virgil was born on October 15, 70 BCE, in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. He attended school at Cremona and Milan, and then went to Rome, where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric, and completed his studies in Naples. Between 42 and 37 BCE.<\/p>\n

Virgil composed pastoral poems known as\u00a0Ecologues<\/i><\/a>, and spent years on the\u00a0Georgics<\/i>. At the urging of Augustus Caesar, Virgil began to write\u00a0The Aeneid<\/i>, a poem of the glory of Rome under Caesar’s rule. Virgil devoted the remaining time of his life, from 30 to 19 BCE, to the composition of\u00a0The Aeneid<\/i>, the national epic of Rome and<\/i><\/small>\u00a0to glory of the Empire. The poet died in 19 BCE of a fever he contracted on his visit to Greece with the Emperor.<\/p>\n

It is said that the poet had instructed his executor Varius to destroy\u00a0The Aeneid<\/i>, but Augustus ordered Varius to ignore this request, and the poem was published.<\/p>\n

David West\u2019s acclaimed prose translation is accompanied by his revised introduction and individual prefaces to the twelve books of\u00a0The Aeneid<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid<\/i>\u00a0to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas \u2013 Augustus\u2019 legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer,\u00a0The Aeneid<\/i>\u00a0also provided Rome with a literature equal to the Greek.<\/p>\n

It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven year journey \u2013 to Carthage, falling tragically in love with Queen Dido; then to the underworld, in the company of the Sibyl of Cumae; and finally to Italy, where he founded Rome. It is a story of defeat and exile, of love and war, hailed by Tennyson as \u2018the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man\u2019.<\/p>\n

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