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Biography of Virgil
Name: Virgil
Birth Date: October 15, 70 B.C.
Death Date: September 21, 19 B.C.
Place of Birth: Andes
Nationality: Roman
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet
Virgil
Virgil (70-19 BC), or Publius Vergilius Maro, was the greatest Roman poet. The Romans regarded his "Aeneid," published two years after his death, as their national epic.Virgil's life spans the bloody upheavals of the last decades of the violent Roman civil war (133-31 B.C.) and the first years of the era of order, stability, and peace created by Augustus (the grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, he succeeded him in power at Rome). Virgil's contemporary poets were the lyricist and satirist Horace and the writers of elegy Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Together they are known as poets of the Golden Age of Latin literature, or more simply, as Augustans. Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, realized the propaganda value of literature, and so he cultivated writers, encouraged them to eulogize his new regime, and subsidized them if necessary. Of all the Augustans, Virgil was the most laudatory of the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Virgil (1946). Among the many studies of Virgil's work are W. F. Jackson Knight, Roman Vergil (1944); Viktor Pöschl, The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the Aeneid (1962); Brooks Otis, Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry (1963); Michael C. J. Putnam, The Poetry of the Aeneid (1965); Kenneth Quinn, Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical Description (1968); Donald R. Dudley, ed., Virgil, in the series Studies in Latin Literature and Its Influence (1968); W. S. Anderson, The Art of the Aeneid (1969); and Michael C. J. Putnam, Virgil's Pastoral Art (1970). Steele Commager, ed., Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays (1966), offers a variety of views on the poet's life and work.See also the discussion of Virgil by C. M. Bowra in From Virgil to Milton (1945) and by Robert Graves in On Poetry: Collected Talks and Essays (1969). Useful background works are Gilbert A. Highet, The Classical Tradition (1949), and R. R. Bolgar, The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries (1954).
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