{"product_id":"virgil-volume-ii-aeneid-books-viixii-the-minor-poems-loeb-classical-library","title":"Virgil: Volume II. Aeneid, Books VII-XII. The Minor Poems (Loeb Classical Library)","description":"Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona  Milan and Rome. Slow in speech  shy in manner  thoughtful in mind  weak in health  he vent back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there  he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems  the Eclogues  which imitated freely Theocrituss idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works  the four hooks of Georgics on tillage  trees  cattle  and bees. Virgils remaining years were spent in composing his great  not wholly finished  epic the Aeneid  on the traditional theme of Romes origins through Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the Emperor Augustuss rule  the poem is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature  philosophy  and learning  and deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from Greece  where he had intended to round off the Aeneid. He had left in Rome a request that all its twelve books should be destroyed if he were to die then  but they were published by the executors of his will. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44629108654133,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674990714","price":226.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0674990714_c4660e9e-8674-4f97-9333-5f40ecd4171c.jpg?v=1765298182","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/virgil-volume-ii-aeneid-books-viixii-the-minor-poems-loeb-classical-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}