It is known that one of his teachers was the Epicurean Siro, and the Epicurean philosophy is substantially reflected in his early poetry but gradually gives way to attitudes more akin to Stoicism. He was educated at Cremona, at Milan, and finally at Rome, acquiring a thorough knowledge of Greek and Roman authors, especially of the poets, and receiving a detailed training in rhetoric and philosophy. Virgil was born of peasant stock, and his love of the Italian countryside and of the people who cultivated it colours all his poetry. His reputation as a poet endures not only for the music and diction of his verse and for his skill in constructing an intricate work on the grand scale but also because he embodied in his poetry aspects of experience and behaviour of permanent significance. His fame rests chiefly upon the Aeneid, which tells the story of Rome’s legendary founder and proclaims the Roman mission to civilize the world under divine guidance. Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet, an estimation that subsequent generations have upheld. Virgil, also spelled Vergil, Latin in full Publius Vergilius Maro, (born October 15, 70 bce, Andes, near Mantua -died September 21, 19 bce, Brundisium), Roman poet, best known for his national epic, the Aeneid (from c.
In English literature his influence can be seen in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Virgil’s work has inspired countless other poets, from Ovid to Dante, who cast Virgil as the poet’s guide through Hell and Purgatory up to the very gates of Paradise in The Divine Comedy, and beyond.
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