| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780140444193 | | Publisher: Penguin Books | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30017675 | | Item#: RKTJJD | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5L x 0.5T |
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This series of ten pastoral poems, written between 42 and 37 B.C., is believed to be Virgil's first authentic work.
| Author Bio| Publius Virgilius Maro was born in northern Italy--a shy and unsophisticated youth, son of a potter and landowner who was wealthy enough to provide his son with a good education. Virgil studied in Cremona and Milan, in Naples with the Greek poet Parthenius, and in Rome with Siro the Epicurean. He became well-known in Rome, where he was on friendly terms with the most eminent men of the time, but he spent much of his time at his farm, pursuing his studies and writing the pastoral poems known as the Eclogues. Later in life, Virgil bought a more elaborate country retreat outside Naples, and it was here that he wrote his treatise on farming, the Georgics, an attempt to make the occupation of agriculture, seen increasingly as in decline, appealing to people who might scorn the rural life. At 41, Virgil began his great Homeric epic, "The Aeneid", celebrating the wonders of the Roman empire which, at that time, was torn by civil strife. Just as he was making a final revision, the culmination of many years' work, he contracted a fever on a trip to Greece and, en route to his home, died in the port of Brindisium at age 51. |
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