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Born in October 15, 70 BC / Died in September 21, 19 BC / Italy / Latin

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

WORKS—EXTANT

  • Bucolica, 10 poems (Bucolics, 42/41-39/38 B.C.).
  • Georgica, 4 books (Georgics, 36-29? B.C.).
  • Aeneis, 12 books; incomplete (Aeneid, 29?-19 B.C.).

WORKS—ATTRIBUTED

  • Appendix Vergiliana; only Catalepton 5 and 8 might possibly be by Virgil, though it is most unlikely.

Editio princeps

  • Opera (Rome: Conradus Sweynheym & Arnoldus Pannartz, ca. 1469).

Standard editions

  • P. Vergili Maronis Opera, edited by R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972); P. Vergili Maronis Opera, edited by Marius Geymonat (Turin: Paravia, 1973).

Translations in English

  • Virgil, 2 volumes, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Loeb Classical Library (New York & London: 1934-1935)
  • Eclogues, translated by C. Day Lewis (London: Cape, 1963)
  • Virgil's Eclogues, translated by Guy Lee (Liverpool: Cairns, 1980)
  • The Georgics of Vergil, translated by Day Lewis (London: Cape, 1941)
  • The Georgics, translated by L. P. Wilkinson (Harmondsworth, U.K. & New York: Penguin, 1982)
  • The Aeneid of Virgil, translated by Day Lewis (London: Hogarth Press, 1952; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
  • The Aeneid, translated by David A. West (London & New York: Penguin, 1990).

Commentaries

  • The Works of Virgil with a Commentary, 3 volumes, edited by John Conington, revised by Henry Nettleship, volume 1, revised by F. Haverfield, fifth edition (London: Bell, 1883-1898).
  • Eclogues: Vergil, edited by R. Coleman (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977)
  • A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues, edited by Wendell Clausen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
  • Georgica, edited by Will Richter (Munich: M. Hueber, 1957)
  • Georgics, 2 volumes, edited by Richard F. Thomas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  • Georgics, edited by R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990)
  • Georgics I and IV, edited by H. H. Huxley (London: Methuen, 1963)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber Primus, edited by R. G. Austin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber Secundus, edited by Austin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber tertius, edited by R. D. Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber Tertius, edited by Arthur Stanley Pease (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1935)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber Quartus, edited by Austin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber Quintus, edited by Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960)
  • Aeneis Buch VI, edited by E. Norden, third edition (Leipzig: Teubner, 1934)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber Sextus, edited by Austin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977)
  • Aeneid 7, edited by N. M. Horsfall (Leiden, 1999)
  • P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Libri VII-VIII, commentary by C. J. Fordyce, edited by John D. Christie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977)
  • A Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid VIII, edited by P. T. Eden (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975)
  • Aeneid Book VIII, edited by K. W. Gransden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976)
  • Virgil Aeneid Book IX, edited by Philip Hardie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
  • Vergil Aeneid 10, edited and translated by S. J. Harrison (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
  • Virgil Aeneid Book XII, edited by W. S. Maguinness (London: Methuen, 1953).