id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6067 Virgil - Wikipedia .html text/html 7305 1024 68 Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuːbli.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪli.ʊs ˈmaroː]; traditional dates 15 October 70 BC – 21 September 19 BC),[1] usually called Virgil or Vergil (/ˈvɜːrdʒɪl/ VUR-jil) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. S. Eliot referred to it as 'the classic of all Europe').[12] Virgil worked on the Aeneid during the last eleven years of his life (29–19 BC), commissioned, according to Propertius, by Augustus.[13] The epic poem consists of 12 books in dactylic hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a warrior fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6067.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6067.txt