Virgil

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Virgil was a renowned Roman poet of the Augustan period, best known for composing the epic Aeneid, which became a cornerstone of Latin literature.

All labels observed (6)

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Virgil canonical 74
Publius Vergilius Maro 1
Vergil 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin author
Roman poet
classical poet
epic poet
associatedWith Augustus
birthDate 70 BC
birthPlace Cisalpine Gaul
near Mantua
burialPlace Naples
characterRole guide of Dante in the Divine Comedy
countryOfCitizenship Roman Republic
deathDate 19 BC
deathPlace Brundisium
Brundisium
surface form: Brundisium, Italy
educatedAt Cremona
Milan
Rome
era Augustan period
Augustan age
surface form: Golden Age of Latin literature
ethnicGroup Roman
familyName Virgil self-linksurface differs
surface form: Vergilius
fullName Virgil self-linksurface differs
surface form: Publius Vergilius Maro
genre didactic poetry
epic poetry
pastoral poetry
givenName Publius
hasCanonicalStatus cornerstone of Latin literature
hasRoleIn development of Western epic tradition
influenced Dante Alighieri
John Milton
Ovid
surface form: Publius Ovidius Naso

Vergilian commentators of Late Antiquity
influencedBy Ennius
Homer
Lucretius
Theocritus
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
literaryPeriod Classical Latin literature
movement Augustan age
surface form: Augustan literature
nativeLanguage Latin
notableWork Virgil's Aeneid
surface form: Aeneid

Eclogues
surface form: Bucolics

Eclogues
Georgics
occupation poet
writer
patron Maecenas
portrayedIn Inferno
surface form: Divine Comedy
subjectOf Virgil's Aeneid
surface form: Aeneid commentaries

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Eclogues partOf Virgil
this entity surface form: Virgilian corpus
Georgics author Virgil
Theocritus influenced Virgil
Lavinium mentionedBy Virgil
this entity surface form: Vergil
Ennius influenced Virgil
Maecenas supportedArtist Virgil
Propertius contemporaryOf Virgil
Oenotrians mentionedBy Virgil
Les Troyens basedOnAuthor Virgil
Aricia mentionedBy Virgil
Cape Misenum mentionedBy Virgil
Misenus (mythological trumpeter of Aeneas) createdBy Virgil
subject surface form: Misenus
Turk familyName Virgil
Lucan influencedBy Virgil
Virgil Mosaic depicts Virgil
Lavinia basedOnWorkBy Virgil
Lavinia featuresCharacter Virgil
this entity surface form: the poet Virgil (as a character)
Anxur mentionedBy Virgil