Major Works

Virgil wrote many different types of publications in his days. He wrote long poems(epics), short poems, and Eclogues.
Some of his works include:
 

• Epics:
• The Aeneid- Virgil devoted his last ten years to the composition of the Aeneid, a mythological epic in 12 books describing the seven-year wanderings of the hero Aeneas from the fall of Troy to his military victory in Italy.
• The Georgics- or Art of Husbandry, a poem in four books on the life of the farmer

• Short Poems:
• The Appendix Vergiliana- a collection of minor poems, was attributed in antiquity to Virgil
• The Catalepton- or Poems in a Trifling Vein
• The Aetna- is generally dated in the 1st century AD.

 The Eclogues
• The Ten Eclogues- pastoral poems modeled on the Idylls of Alexandrian poet Theocritus

This is a map of the Greek and Roman States in the time of the Aeneid
 

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