5/10/2023 0 Comments The aeneid by virgil![]() Virgil almost without a biography, without the lavish myths, turns out to be no less great a poet than he was before. Now biographers try to piece together Virgil's life from his own writings and the writings of his contemporaries. Romans and Italians after his death attributed many myths to Virgil's tomb, for example, which is located near Naples, contending that the cave in which he was buried was carved out from the supernatural power of Virgil's gaze. These ancient biographies include much material that has been believed only because it was applied to Virgil. ( Vergil with an e is the classical Roman spelling, normal in Germany, and thence adopted by some in the United Kingdom and the United States, contrary to traditional literary usage). ![]() Over the past 300 years, much of Virgil’s long-standard ancient biography, based on hearsay and legends, has been challenged. ![]() The son of a farmer in northern Italy, Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome's greatest poets his Aeneid as Rome's national epic. ![]() Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works-the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics, and the Aeneid-although several minor poems are also attributed to him. ![]()
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