Publius Vergilius Maro, known as Virgil (70–19 BCE), was the major poet of Augustan Rome. He wrote the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and became Rome’s central literary authority. The Aeneid was unfinished at his death but published under Augustus, giving Roman empire a mythic origin shadowed by loss.
The Aeneid tells how Aeneas, a Trojan survivor, travels from ruined Troy to Italy to found the lineage that will become Rome. The poem opens with storm and displacement: Juno hates the Trojans, Aeolus releases winds, and Aeneas reaches Carthage.
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