✍🏽 Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE) spent the last 11 years of his life writing the Aeneid, only to die before it was completed. He requested that it be destroyed upon his death, but Augustus had other plans, and the book was published with minor edits soon after Virgil’s death. 

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#OTD #TDIH #September21, #19BC: #DOTD: #RIP: #PubliusVergiliusMaro aka #Virgil/#Vergil.
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The #Aeneid
By Virgil
Translation: Fitzgerald

Read if: You liked the #Iliad, and want to see the Roman sequel featuring the secondary characters. This is the ancient equivalent of an unnecessary sequel ages after the fact, wrapped in patriotism but by a talented director.

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