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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 · 157,162 ratings · 6,659 reviews · 3,914 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Aeneid by Virgil, Scott McGill (translator), Susannah Wright (Goodreads Author) (translator) 3.87 avg rating — 143,488 ratings — published -19 — 8 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 3.89 avg rating — 3,269 ratings — published -39 — 226 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 — 2,549 ratings — published -29 — 469 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 4.03 avg rating — 1,944 ratings — published -19 — 429 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 4.27 avg rating — 856 ratings — published -19 — 87 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
	Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana 4.36 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 1513 — 132 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 — 769 ratings — published -38 — 390 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 1–6 by Virgil, G.P. Goold (Primary Contributor), H. Rushton Fairclough (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 603 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) 3.86 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 1952 — 51 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
	Doomed Love by Virgil, W.F. Jackson Knight (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 391 ratings — 22 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)

4.10 avg rating — 172 ratings

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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%

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

37 votes, 14.2%

The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac, 1831, 252 pp

35 votes, 13.4%

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

31 votes, 11.9%

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, 1899, 288 pp

13 votes, 5.0%

261 total votes

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