Virgil

A 3rd-century Roman [[Virgil Mosaic|mosaic of Virgil]] seated between [[Clio]] and [[Melpomene]] (from [[Hadrumetum]] [Sousse], Tunisia) Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the ''Eclogues'' (or ''Bucolics''), the ''Georgics'', and the epic ''Aeneid''. A number of minor poems, collected in the ''Appendix Vergiliana'', were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars generally regard these works as spurious, with the possible exception of a few short pieces.

Already acclaimed in his own lifetime as a classic author, Virgil rapidly replaced Ennius and other earlier authors as a standard school text, and stood as the most popular Latin poet through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, exerting inestimable influence on all subsequent Western literature. Geoffrey Chaucer assigned Virgil a uniquely prominent position among all the celebrities of human history in ''The House of Fame'' (1374–85), describing him as standing ''on a pilere / that was of tinned yren clere'' ("on a pillar that was of bright tin-plated iron"), and in the ''Divine Comedy'', in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory, Dante pays tribute to Virgil with the words (''Inf.'' I.86–7) ("thou art alone the one from whom I took the beautiful style that has done honour to me"). In the 20th Century, T. S. Eliot famously began a lecture on the subject "What Is a Classic?" by asserting as self-evidently true that "whatever the definition we arrive at, it cannot be one which excludes Virgil – we may say confidently that it must be one which will expressly reckon with him." Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 81
    Chicago : Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., [c1956]
    vii, 510 p. illus. 21 cm.
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    Chicago, B. H. Sanborn [c1948]
    vii, 510 p. illus. 21 cm.
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  3. 83
    New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [c1951]
    xxvi, 512 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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  4. 84
    St. Louis : [publisher not identified], 1938.
    38 pages : portrait.
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  5. 85
    Philadelphia : T.& J.W. Johnson, 1851.
    1 online resource (2 v.)
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  6. 86
    [New York] : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1945]
    7 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
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  7. 87
    New York ; Chicago ; Atlanta ; San Francisco ; Dallas : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1948]
    7 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
    Other Authors: “...Stinebaugh, Virgil...”
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  8. 88
    New York ; Chicago ; Boston ; Atlanta ; San Francisco ; Dallas : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1945]
    7 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
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  9. 89
    New York ; Chicago ; Atlanta ; San Francisco ; Dallas : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1950]
    95 pages ; 21 x 28 cm.
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  10. 90
    New York ; Chicago ; Boston ; San Francisco ; Dallas : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1954]
    7 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
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  11. 91
    New York ; Chicago ; Boston ; San Francisco ; Dallas : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1954]
    7 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
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  12. 92
    Nürnberg : In Verlegung Georg Scheurers, Kunst-Händlers : Gedruckt daselbst bey Andreas Knorzen, 1682.
    [10], 3-148 p. 17 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  13. 93
    by Delille, Jacques, 1738-1813
    Published 1850
    Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1850.
    2 p. l., 530 p. 1 l. front. (port.) 18 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  14. 94
    by Proba, 4th cent
    Published 1509
    [Paris, pro Ioanne Petit, 1509]
    36 p. 21 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  15. 95
    by Atkins, Maurice
    Published 1672
    London : Printed for Maurice Atkins, 1672.
    88 pages.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  16. 96
    [s.l.] : The Vergilian Society,
    v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  17. 97
    [s.l.] : The Vergilian Society.
    v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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  18. 98
    by Nordin, John A., 1916-
    Published 1950
    New York, Prentice-Hall, 1950.
    xvi, 844 p. diagrs., maps. 24 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Salera, Virgil, 1913-...”
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  19. 99
    Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1906.
    xvi, 13-749 p. ill.
    Other Authors: “...Coblentz, Virgil, 1862-...”
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  20. 100
    Published 1957
    Bordeaux : Éditions Bière, 1957.
    xlix, 79 p. ; 25 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Virgil...”
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