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The farm of Virgil's father was among the land confiscated as payment for the victorious soldiers of the Battle of Philippi (42 B.C.). But Augustus restored the farm to the family. Virgil then rendered thanks to young Caesar in his first Eclogue. He dedicated his earliest Eclogues to Asinius Pollio and mentioned Alfenus Varus in the ninth, where the evils of land confiscation are referred to, to thank them for their help as well.
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While the exact birthdate of Virgil is not absolute, it is said to be October 15, 70 B.C. in the environs of Mantua in northern Italy. After he wrote his Eclogues (on which, at least in part, Dante's own Eclogues are based), Virgil joined the circle of artists and poets supported by the wealthy patron Maecenas, which gave him the economic freedom to spend most of the rest of his life writing. And write he did: by 29 B.C. he had written his Georgics, several didactic books about farming. In fact, one poem in Virgil's 4th book of the Eclogues which proclaims the coming a great messiah-like child has caught the eye of many scholars, Dante included. The Aeneid
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During the last ten years of his life, Virgil worked on The Aeneid while living in Naples and Sicily. Caesar Augustus was deeply interested in Virgil and his new work and while in Spain in 26 and 25 B.C., he wrote Virgil to send him drafts of sections of the poem. Virgil refused his request, but did recite portions of the poem to him in 23 B.C. Virgil died while traveling from Athens to Naples with Augustus in 19 B.C., leaving his final work The Aeneid unfinished. Prior to his departure, he arranged for his friends Varius and Tucca to dispose of the incomplete text should he not return from his journey. However, Augustus ordered them not to harm the manuscript and published the unfinished text.
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Virgil spent his early life in Andes which is not far from Mantua. After he received the toga virilis at age 15, he went to Cremona to be educated. Then he went to Milan and Rome. Virgil first appeared to take an interest in law, but soon turned to philosophy and literature. He then returned to his father's farm in 51 B.C. where he continued his studies for the next ten years. After his father's farm was confiscated, he went back to Rome.
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Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C.E., in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. Publius Vergilius Maro, or Virgil has influenced Western literature for two millennia, but little is known about the man himself. His father was a prosperous landowner, described variously as a "potter" and a "courier", who could afford thorough education for the future poet. Virgil attended school at Cremona and Milan, and then went to Rome, where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric, and completed his studies in Naples. He entered literary circles as an "Alexandrian," the name given to a group of poets who sought inspiration in the sophisticated work of third-century Greek poets ... known as Alexandrians.
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Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C.E., in Northern Italy in a small village near Mantua - probably but not certainly the modern Pietole. Virgil was no Roman but a Gaul - the village was situated in what was then called Gallia Cisalpina - Gaul this side of the Alps. Publius Vergilius Maro, or Virgil, grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has influenced Western literature for two millennia, little is known about the man himself. His father was a prosperous landowner, described variously as a "potter" and a "courier", who could afford a thorough education for the future poet. This Virgil received.
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