Information about the life of Virgil, an outstanding poet of ancient Rome, is very scarce. Publius Virgil Maron was born on October 15, 70 BC near Mantua, northern Italy. His father was reportedly a craftsman, married the owner’s daughter, and later engaged in breeding bees and selling timber. He also owned an estate in the Andes. Virgil received a good education, studied in Cremona and Mediolan, studied Alexandrian poetry. At the age of 19, he came to Rome to study rhetoric. After staying in Rome
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Information about the life of Virgil, an outstanding poet of ancient Rome, is very scarce. Publius Virgil Maron was born on October 15, 70 BC near Mantua, northern Italy. His father was reportedly a craftsman, married the owner’s daughter, and later engaged in breeding bees and selling timber. He also owned an estate in the Andes. Virgil received a good education, studied in Cremona and Mediolan, studied Alexandrian poetry. At the age of 19, he came to Rome to study rhetoric. After staying in Rome for about a year, Virgil settled in Naples, where he entered the circle of the Epicureans. In Naples and near it Virgil lived almost all his life - only occasionally he visited Rome, visited Sicily and Tarente. In the late 40s, the poet returned to his native Andes, where his estate, as was the case with the estates of many landowners of northern Italy, was confiscated in favor of Octavian's veterans and was returned only thanks to the intervention of influential literary friends. The collection of lyrical poems by Virgil “Bukoliki” was completed in 39. Between 37 and 30 years Virgil wrote his second major work - didactic poem "Georgics", and the last 10 years of his life working on the poem "Aeneid", which was completed only in rough form, but glorified the poet in the centuries. In it, he developed tales of the wanderings and wars of the Trojan Aeneas, who appeared in the poem as the ancestor of Emperor Augustus. In 19 BC Virgil went on a great journey through Greece. In Athens, Virgil met with Augustus, after which he decided to abandon the trip and return to Italy. On examination of Megar, he became seriously ill, on the ship the disease worsened, and on September 20, 19 BC, shortly after arriving at Brundisius, Virgil died.