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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: 3.89 · 164,403 ratings · 7,568 reviews · 4,123 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Aeneid by Virgil, Scott McGill (translator), Susannah Wright (Goodreads Author) (translator) 3.88 avg rating — 149,943 ratings — published -19 — 2691 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 — 3,458 ratings — published -39 — 425 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 3.74 avg rating — 2,718 ratings — published -29 — 467 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 4.02 avg rating — 2,002 ratings — published -19 — 388 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 4.28 avg rating — 880 ratings — published -19 — 63 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 — 714 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 3.75 avg rating — 829 ratings — published -38 — 261 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 — 616 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) 3.88 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1952 — 53 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 — 404 ratings — 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

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Series by Virgil

Cambridge Latin Texts (15 books)
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Virgil,

Charles H. Craddock (Editor)

4.08 avg rating — 200 ratings

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Polls

July 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Medea by Euripides, 432, 59 pp

73 votes, 28.9%

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 1899, 400 pp

68 votes, 26.9%

The Aeneid by Virgil, -19, 484 pp

40 votes, 15.8%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 1859, 586 pp

36 votes, 14.2%

Lysistrata by Aristophanes, -424, 54 pp

29 votes, 11.5%

The Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer, 1485, 323 pp

7 votes, 2.8%

253 total votes

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