Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, where he had intended to round off the Aeneid. Inspired by the Emperor Augustus's rule, the poem is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in spirit. ![]() Virgil's remaining years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic the Aeneid, on the traditional theme of Rome's origins through Aeneas of Troy. Before 29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works, the four hooks of Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems, the Eclogues, which imitated freely Theocritus's idylls. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome.
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