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Biographical information about Virgil is transmitted chiefly in vitae ('lives') of the poet prefixed to commentaries on his work by Probus, Donatus, and Servius.The life given by Donatus is generally considered to closely reproduce the life of Virgil from a lost work of Suetonius on the lives of famous authors, just as Donatus used this source for the poet's life in his commentary on Terence ...
Folio 14 recto of the Vergilius Romanus contains an author portrait of Virgil. Folio 100 verso. Dido and Aeneas at the banquet. The Vergilius Romanus (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3867), also known as the Roman Vergil, is a 5th-century illustrated manuscript of the works of Virgil.
In Eclogue 10, Virgil replaces Theocritus' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend, the elegiac poet Gaius Cornelius Gallus, imagined dying of love in Arcadia. Virgil transforms this remote, mountainous, and myth-ridden region of Greece, homeland of Pan, into the ...
Eclogue 4, also known as the Fourth Eclogue, is a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. The poem is dated to 40 BC by its mention of the consulship of Virgil's patron Gaius Asinius Pollio. The work predicts the birth of a boy, a supposed savior, who—once he is of age—will become divine and eventually rule over the world.
The Sortes Vergilianae (Virgilian Lots) is a form of divination by bibliomancy in which advice or predictions of the future are sought by interpreting passages from the works of the Roman poet Virgil. The use of Virgil for divination may date to as early as the second century AD, and is part of a wider tradition that associated the poet with ...
The poet's description of himself as a retired politician now dedicated to philosophy excludes Virgil's authorship. [25] He appears to have imitated all three canonical Virgilian works, as well as Ovid and Manilius , but a date later than Messalla's death (no later than early AD 13 [ 26 ] ) creates a problem identifying the poet's addressee. [ 27 ]
Vergilius Romanus, fol. 1 r. The beginning of Virgil’s Eclogues in MS. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 1632, fol. 3r.. Eclogue 1 (Ecloga I) is a bucolic poem by the Latin poet Virgil from his Eclogues.
Georgics Book III, shepherd with flocks, Roman Virgil.. The Georgics (/ ˈ dʒ ɔːr dʒ ɪ k s / JOR-jiks; Latin: Georgica [ɡeˈoːrɡɪka]) is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE. [1]