Publius Vergilius Maro, known in English as Virgil, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period, author of three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. His Eclogues adapted Theocritus's pastoral poetry into Latin and became highly influential on the genre's later European tradition. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Original Language Virgil
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Pastoral, Genres Virgil adapted pastoral into Latin with his Eclogues, highly influential on the genre's later European tradition; the genre's own origin-place fact already names him.
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In Genre
Epic, Genres The Aeneid already in-genre Epic; Virgil himself carried no in-genre edge to it.
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Influenced
Dante casts Virgil as his own guide through Hell and most of Purgatory in the Divine Comedy, the clearest possible authorial acknowledgment of influence.
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Neoclassicism, Movements Wikipedia, Augustan literature: Neoclassical (Augustan) poets treated Classical Roman poets as models to imitate; Pope applies Virgils heroic and epic structure to the story in The Rape of the Lock, and imitated Horace in Epistle to Augustus.
Influenced By
Homer, Authors Virgil modelled the Aeneid on Homer's two epics: the first six books on the Odyssey, the last six on the Iliad.
Source Virgil (Wikipedia)
Virgil's Eclogues are modelled on Theocritus's pastoral Idylls, the same seam already reflected on both authors' shared associated-with edge to the Pastoral genre.
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Source Wikipedia: The Aeneid
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He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.
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Died 21 September 19 BC in Brundisium, Italy.
- Associated With: Pastoral
Influenced By: Homer, Aeneid section
The work, modelled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, chronicles the journey of a warrior and refugee.
Influenced By: Theocritus, Eclogues section
The Eclogues (from the Greek for 'selections') are a group of ten poems roughly modelled on the bucolic ('pastoral' or 'rural') poetry of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus.
Influenced: Dante Alighieri, Middle Ages section
Dante presents Virgil as his guide through Hell and the greater part of Purgatory in the Divine Comedy.
In Genre: Epic, Works section, three famous poems
He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.
In Genre: Epic, Opening paragraph, the epic Aeneid
He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.
View the Source Wikipedia: The Aeneid
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