name: Virgil
genres: Poetry, Greek Mythology
influences: Theocritus, Homer, Hesiod, Lucretius Carus
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about: born 15 October 70 BCdied 21 September 19 BCRoman 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. born 15 October 70 BCdied 21 September 19 BCRoman 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