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Virgil

-70–-19

1 fiction

Virgil was Rome’s major epic poet and author of the Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics.

Virgil wrote during the transition from civil war to Augustan rule. The Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid connect pastoral, agriculture, myth, exile, empire and the destiny claimed for Rome under Augustus.

He belongs in Classical for pages on Augustan literature, Roman foundation myth, Troy, Aeneas and imperial ideology. The Aeneid is essential background for Roman identity and for later literary treatments of conquest and loss.

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Ancient Greecec. 1100–146 BCE Augustan Poetry and Roman Mythmaking40 BCE–17 CE Imperial Rome27 BCE–476 CE Trojan War Epic TraditionMythic Bronze Age tradition

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Historical fiction series by Virgil (1 series)

Penguin Classics: Ancient World in Order

by various authors 32 books showing 1 book here 4.6(13,212)

Penguin Classics: Ancient World brings together foundational works of literature, history, philosophy, drama and poetry from the earliest civilisations through classical Greece and Rome. The wider Penguin Classics series began in 1946 with E. V. Rieu’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, reflecting its original aim of making important texts…

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