Heralded as one of the greatest writers of all time, Publius Vergilius Maro (known today as Virgil or Vergil) wrote c. 50 BC under the patronage of the emperor Augustus. Although most known for his magnus opus, the Aeneid, Vergil also wrote a book of ten pastoral poems known as the Eclogues and a collection of four books known as the Georgics, which instruct one on matters of farming. Vergil, working in a literary tradition preceded by didactic writers such as Hesiod and Lucretius, follows suit by composing in hexameter and in the naturalistic language common at this time. Vergil, however, deviates from his predecessors by incorporating new themes and adding a new level of aesthetic variation to his work.
Bio by Mackenzie Leonard Hilton