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VIRGIL (70 b.c.-19 b.c.)

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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Virgil was one of the greatest poets of ancient Rome. He was born in northern Italy and grew up on his father's farm until age 12. In 37 b.c. he published the Eclogues, comprising ten poems about country living. A rich and powerful patron, Maecenas, encouraged further books of poems about farming.

Virgil's masterpiece, the Aeneid, is a long story-poem in 12 books. The Aeneid tells the story of Aeneas, a hero of the legendary Trojan War between the Greeks and the people of Troy, a city in Asia Minor (now Turkey). Aeneas, son of the goddess Venus, is the only Trojan hero ...

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