or Virgil Vergil

Vergil, or Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; 70–19 B.C.), Roman poet. Maecenas became his patron and Octavian (later the Emperor Augustus) his friend. He won recognition with his Eclogues or Bucolics, pastoral poems reflecting the events of his own day. The Georgics, a didactic poem on farming, uses the world of the farmer as a model for the world at large. His last 10 years were spent on his epic masterpiece, the Aeneid, about the wanderings of the Trojan War survivor Aeneas and his struggle to found Rome.