Roman
Virgil was the greatest of the Roman poets, author of the Aeneid, the national epic of Rome and one of the supreme works of Western literature.
Publius Vergilius Maro (70–19 BCE) was the preeminent poet of the Augustan age, whose work came to define Roman literary achievement and profoundly shaped the European tradition.
His masterpiece, the Aeneid, recounts the journey of the Trojan hero Aeneas to Italy and the mythic founding of Rome, blending Homeric epic with a meditation on duty, destiny, and the costs of empire. His earlier Eclogues and Georgics established the pastoral and didactic traditions in Latin poetry. So great was his stature that Dante chose him as his guide through Hell in The Divine Comedy.
Virgil is honored as one of the supreme poets of antiquity, whose epic shaped the imagination of the Western world for two thousand years.
by Virgil
Aeneas, survivor of Troy, journeys to Italy to found the civilization that will become Rome. In twelve books of Latin hexameter, Virgil traces Aeneas's trials at sea, his affair with Dido in Carthage, his descent into the underworld, and his final wars in Latium — creating the founding myth of the Roman world.
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