Virgil is read about 2,788 times a day, in 178 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He wrote the Aeneid nearly two thousand years ago, and every generation since has had to reckon with him. Dante made him his guide through Hell. Chaucer put him on a pillar of polished iron. The shape of epic itself still bends around what he did.
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Parco della Grotta di Posillipo5 (crop)_(14783914352).jpg?width=1200)
"Quomodo de Vergili arte poetica eum iudicare liceat, qui Ecologas cum Theocriti Idylliis comparat." (1905) (14783914352)
A celebration party given in honour of a good harvest. Engra Wellcome V0025741
A youth idling by a brook. Engraving by J. Heath, 1810, afte Wellcome V0025767
Alexandre Virdjile a Måtche
An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil MET DP114125
Aratrum Vergilianum
Caen église St Pierre VirgileIn their own words 2
, Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.
Procul, O procul este, profani!
In their orbit
About this person
Publius Vergilius Maro was born on 15 October 70 BC and composed three works that became the foundation of Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. Already a classic in his own lifetime, he quickly replaced earlier poets like Ennius as the standard school text and held that position through late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and into modernity. Chaucer placed him on a bright tin-plated pillar in The House of Fame; Dante cast him as his guide through Hell and Purgatory in the Divine Comedy, crediting Virgil with the "beautiful style that has done honour to me". When T. S. Eliot opened a 20th-century lecture titled "What Is a Classic?", he began by saying any definition must expressly reckon with Virgil. He died on 21 September 19 BC, but the reckoning never stopped.
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