![]() ![]() ![]() The Classical Review Cambridge Core Home > Journals > The Classical Review > Volume 20 Issue 1 > The Aeneid of Virgil, Translated by John Dryden. Edited with introduction and notes by Robert Fitzgerald. It is said that the poet had instructed his executor Varius to destroy The Aeneid, but Augustus ordered Varius to ignore this request, and the poem was published. The Aeneid of Virgil, Translated by John Dryden. The poet died in 19 B.C of a fever he contracted on his visit to Greece with the Emperor. ![]() Virgil devoted the remaining time of his life, from 30 to 19 B.C., to the composition of The Aeneid, the national epic of Rome and to glory of the Empire. Virgil composed pastoral poems known as Ecologues, and spent years on the Georgics.At the urging of Augustus Caesar, Virgil began to write The Aeneid, a poem of the glory of Rome under Caesars rule. The poem is brilliantly interwoven with themes of love, human experience, perseverance, and Roman history to create Romes own origin story. He attended school at Cremona and Milan, and then went to Rome, where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric, and completed his studies in Naples. Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C., in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. ![]() Virgil (70 B.C-19 B.C) is regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, The Aeneid (written about 29 B.C. ![]()
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