The story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net worth—for an extravagant funeral. Celebrities swarmed the poet’s ...

Virgil was the most important Roman poet, so his works would have been the basis for what children were taught in schools, particularly the Aeneid as it tells the legendary story of Rome's ...

Virgil was perhaps the greatest Ancient Roman poet and his greatest work was the Aeneid, the story in epic verse of Trojan her Aeneas's journey from Troy to the area where Rome was founded. His ...

Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing ‘blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid. Virgil was dying.

The poet wrote slowly: a line or two a day. His work extolled Augustus’ imperium, but he kept his distance from Rome. ... Roman mosaic of Virgil and two Muses, ca. 200.

Now, researchers have determined that the inscription on an 1,800-year-old pottery fragment is a quote from the poet Virgil, who lived in the first century B.C.E.

Virgil was the most popular poet of his time, and still many centuries later. The Aeneid was taught at schools, and its verses routinely written as a pedagogical exercise for many generations.

Ancient Roman olive oil jar fragment found with rare inscription in Spain, study says. It is quote from poet Virgil’s the Georgics poem.