Vergil (Vergilius)
Vergil wrote the Aeneid, Rome's epic of Aeneas, and also the Eclogues and the Georgics. The Aeneid is dactylic hexameter.
Grades 6–8. Authors and genres.
How it connects
Epic is the long narrative poem. Pastoral and farming poems are his other genres.
Latin words that go with this card: carmen, urbs.