Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuːbliʊs wɛrˈɡɪliʊs ˈmaroː]; 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 epic Aeneid. Some minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars regard these as spurious, with the possible exception of some short pieces.
Already acclaimed in his 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 Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting major influence on Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position in history in The House of Fame (1374–85), describing him as standing on a pilere / that was of tinned yren clere ("on a pillar that was of bright tin-plated iron"), and in the Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory, Dante pays tribute to Virgil with the words tu se' solo colui da cu'io tolsi / lo bello stile che m'ha fatto onore (Inf. I.86–7) ("thou art alone the one from whom I took the beautiful style that has done honour to me"). In the 20th century, T. S. Eliot famously began a lecture on the subject "What Is a Classic?" by asserting as self-evidently true that "whatever the definition we arrive at, it cannot be one which excludes Virgil – we may say confidently that it must be one which will expressly reckon with him".
Timelines
- 2020-07-29T00:00:00.000000Z
Matchbox
- 2022-08-14T00:00:00.000000Z
between walls
- 2021-04-23T00:00:00.000000Z
Gumbo Eyes
- 2020-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z
Useless Child
- 2020-05-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Love Me Not
- 2020-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z
Earl Gray
- 2020-01-24T00:00:00.000000Z
Firefly
- 2019-12-22T00:00:00.000000Z
El Niño
- 2019-09-30T00:00:00.000000Z
Confidence
- 2019-06-11T00:00:00.000000Z
SweeTight
- 2019-04-17T00:00:00.000000Z
Indivisible
- 2019-04-09T00:00:00.000000Z
Belle Noone
- 2019-03-11T00:00:00.000000Z
Similar Artists