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Virgil (70–19 bc) ( Publius Vergilius Maro) Roman poet. Virgil gained a high literary reputation in Rome with the Eclogues (42–37 bc) and the Georgics (37–30 bc), a pastoral but instructive work on farming and country life. His greatest work was the Aeneid, which established him as an epic poet. It relates the adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas, and echoes the themes of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. Unfinished at his death, it was published at the command of Emperor Augustus.

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