# Virgil

- id: virgil
- name in original script: Publius Vergilius Maro
- dates: 70 BCE–19 BCE
- roles: author

Rome's national poet. The Aeneid never needed rescue, only re-voicing, century after century.

## Works in the atlas

- Aeneid (aeneid)

## Sources

- John Dryden (1697). The Works of Virgil.