Virgil (Author of The Aeneid)

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Virgil

Born

Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman republic

Genre

Poetry, Greek Mythology

Influences

Homer, Hesiod, Theocritus, Lucretius Carus ...more

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born 15 October 70 BC
died 21 September 19 BC

Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid , an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aeneas.

Work of Virgil greatly influenced on western literature; in most notably Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 150,077 ratings · 5,928 reviews · 3,654 distinct works â€� Similar authors

	The Aeneid by Virgil, Scott McGill (translator), Susannah Wright (translator) 3.87 avg rating — 137,300 ratings — published -19 — 2632 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eclogues 3.90 avg rating — 3,111 ratings — published -39 — 419 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Georgics 3.73 avg rating — 2,383 ratings — published -29 — 464 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aeneid: Books I-VI 4.05 avg rating — 1,864 ratings — published -19 — 393 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aeneid Book VI 4.28 avg rating — 834 ratings — published -19 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eclogues/The Georgics 3.77 avg rating — 719 ratings — published -38 — 357 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1â€� by Virgil, G.P. Goold (Primary Contributor), H. Rushton Fairclough (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 585 ratings — published -19 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil, John William Mackail (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 380 ratings — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robert Fagles: The Aeneid (Paperback); 2008 Edition 4.13 avg rating — 351 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Opera (Oxford Classical Texts) 4.12 avg rating — 316 ratings — published -19 — 1134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Virgil

Cambridge Latin Texts (15 books)
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Virgil,

Charles H. Craddock (Editor)

4.09 avg rating — 152 ratings

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March 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Electra by Sophocles, -410, 128 pp

58 votes, 22.1%

The Aeneid by Virgil, -19, 484 pp

49 votes, 18.6%

The Symposium by Plato, -380, 90 pp

39 votes, 14.8%

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, 1889, 176 pp

37 votes, 14.1%

36 votes, 13.7%

Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana Jr., 1840, 458 pp

31 votes, 11.8%

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, 1899, 288 pp

13 votes, 4.9%

263 total votes

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