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be a very insensitive reader if, once launched on Aeneas’ fateful journey with Fitzgerald as guide, does not follow it to the end.” – The New Republic “In this Aeneid Fitzgerald is at the top of his form. This is a sustained achievement of beauty and power.” – Boston Globe Fitzgerald has managed, by a sensitive use of faintly archaic vocabulary and a keen ear for sound and rhythm, to suggest the solemnity and the movement of Virgil’s poetry as no previous translator has done. “A rendering that is both marvelously readable and scrupulously faithful. “Fitzgerald’s is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come.” – New York Review of Books It is said that the poet had instructed his executor Varius to destroy The Aeneid, but Augustus ordered Varius to ignore this request, and the poem was published. The poet died in 19 BCE of a fever he contracted on his visit to Greece with the Emperor. Virgil devoted the remaining time of his life, from 30 to 19 BCE, to the composition of The Aeneid, the national epic of Rome and to glory of the Empire. Virgil composed pastoral poems known as Ecologues, and spent years on the Georgics.Īt the urging of Augustus Caesar, Virgil began to write The Aeneid, a poem of the glory of Rome under Caesar's rule. He attended school at Cremona and Milan, and then went to Rome, where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric, and completed his studies in Naples. Virgil was born on October 15, 70 BCE, in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. Virgil (70–19 BCE) is regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, The Aeneid (written about 29 BCE, unfinished).