Vergil
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Image source
Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parco_della_Grotta_di_Posillipo5_(crop).jpg
Basic data
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Vergilius Maro, Publius Real Name
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Virgil Alternative Names
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October 15, 70 BCE in Andes bei Mantua
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†September 21, 19 BCE in Brindisi
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Dichter, Schriftsteller
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Cremona, Mailand, Rom, Neapel
Iconography
.jpg "Modern bust of Virgil at the entrance to his crypt in Naples (Source: Wikimedia)")
![A 3rd-century Roman mosaic of Virgil seated between Clio and Melpomene (from Hadrumetum [Sousse], Tunisia) (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Virgil_mosaic_in_the_Bardo_National_Museum_(Tunis)_(12241228546).jpg "A 3rd-century Roman mosaic of Virgil seated between Clio and Melpomene (from Hadrumetum [Sousse], Tunisia) (Source: Wikimedia)")
![The verse inscription at Virgil's tomb was supposedly composed by the poet himself: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. ("Mantua gave me life, the Calabrians took it away, Naples holds me now; I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders" [transl. Bernard Knox]) (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vergil_tomb_inscription.jpg "The verse inscription at Virgil's tomb was supposedly composed by the poet himself: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. (\"Mantua gave me life, the Calabrians took it away, Naples holds me now; I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders\" [transl. Bernard Knox]) (Source: Wikimedia)")
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