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Virgil between the Muses Clio and Melpomene, mosaic, 3rd century, Bardo Museum, Tunis (detail)
Virgil between the Muses Clio and Melpomene, mosaic, 3rd century, Bardo Museum, Tunis (detail) · Wikimedia Commons

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Vergil

70–19 BC · Poet

Born near Mantua, he wrote the Eclogues and the Georgics and spent his last ten years on the Aeneid, Rome’s national epic. Dying, he asked for it to be burned; Augustus refused.

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3 Werke

The Aeneid, the Georgics and the Eclogues, in Latin beside English.

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