![]() The Power of Love: "Love conquers all, let us all yield to love.". ![]() His reason for wanting The Aeneid burned was because its' incompleteness did not live up to his standards. He could spend a day writing one line of poetry, but his work has been called the stateliest measures ever moulded by the lips of man. The Perfectionist: His sense of perfectionism was extraordinary.According to Warde Fowler, "there is no other Latin poet who felt in the same degree the beauty and the mystery of animals." Nature Lover: Virgil held a strong love for nature, the woodland, and animals (especially bees and oxen) which is obvious in reading any of his works, but especially so in the Georgics.He's also the protagonist of Hermann Broch's 1945 novel The Death of Virgil and the Alternate History Fantasy book series Vergil Magus by Avram Davidson. Historical Domain Character: Most famously he serves as the guide for Dante in the first two parts of The Divine Comedy.In The Divine Comedy, Virgil himself guides Dante through Hell. His hero Aeneas also makes a trip to the underworld in The Aeneid guided by the Sybil. To Hell and Back: His story of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Georgics is about a man going into the underworld to save his true love.Call to Agriculture: Georgica, a cycle of poems about agriculture and the pastoral life.Biography à Clef: Virgil was described as a magician and seer in many strange folkloric legends in the middle ages due to some of his work being interpreted as prophetic.Blood from the Mouth: Virgil frequently suffered fevers and would cough up blood.He also had a close relationship with Caius Cornelius Gallus who appears in The Georgics and for whom he writes a loving eulogy for in The Eclogues. He never married and was said to have loved a man named Alexander whom he writes of as Alexis in the Eclogues which has numerous references to homosexuality. Ambiguously Gay: Virgil is believed to have been homosexual, as he created the tragic gay lovers Nisus and Euryalus in the Aeneid.Not to be confused with the other Vergil. The Middle Ages also developed a habit of spelling his name V irgilius. In this function, he is famously featured in Dante's The Divine Comedy, where he guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory. Because of this, he was considered something of a seer and a mediator between pagan Antiquity and Christianity. Vergilius was one of the few Roman poets that remained popular and greatly admired throughout the Christian Middle Ages, because one of his Eclogues was interpreted as a prophecy of the coming of Christ. The poem itself is unfinished and as per legend, Virgil ordered the book to be burnt after his death, orders which were refused by his friends and Augustus. He composed The Aeneid, setting out how Trojan refugees founded the greatest Rome or, rather, founded the tribe that would later give birth to the founders. Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15th, 70 BC - September 21st, 19 BC) was a Roman poet, contemporary of Augustus and Ovid and admirer of Catullus.
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