Virgil

Who was Virgil?

Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him.

Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy—in Roman mythology the founding act of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably the Divine Comedy of Dante, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.

Famous Quotes:

• Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
• Rumor grows as it goes.
• Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
• Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.
• Press no further with hate.
• I saw these terrible things,and took great part in them.
• Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
• Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
• Fortune favors the brave.
• Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.