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Virgil


Born
Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman republic
Genre

Influences


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.
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Average rating: 3.88 · 157,162 ratings · 6,659 reviews · 3,914 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Aeneid

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3.87 avg rating — 143,488 ratings — published -19 — 8 editions
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The Eclogues

3.89 avg rating — 3,269 ratings — published -39 — 226 editions
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The Georgics

3.73 avg rating — 2,549 ratings — published -29 — 469 editions
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Aeneid: Books I-VI

4.03 avg rating — 1,944 ratings — published -19 — 429 editions
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Aeneid Book VI

4.27 avg rating — 856 ratings — published -19 — 87 editions
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Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books...

4.36 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 1513 — 132 editions
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The Eclogues/The Georgics

3.77 avg rating — 769 ratings — published -38 — 390 editions
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Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid,...

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The Aeneid of Virgil

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3.86 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 1952 — 51 editions
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Doomed Love

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Selections from Aeneid II Selections from Aeneid IV Selections from Aeneid VI
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Quotes by Virgil  (?)
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Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
Virgil, The Aeneid

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
Virgil

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
Virgil

Polls

March 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Electra by Sophocles, -410, 128 pp
 
  58 votes, 22.2%

The Aeneid by Virgil, -19, 484 pp
 
  49 votes, 18.8%

The Symposium by Plato, -380, 90 pp
 
  38 votes, 14.6%

 
  37 votes, 14.2%

 
  35 votes, 13.4%

 
  31 votes, 11.9%

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, 1899, 288 pp
 
  13 votes, 5.0%

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