Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues ; the Georgics, perhaps the most beautiful poem ever written about country life ; and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome.

He supported Virgil who wrote the Georgics in his honour.

The change in seriousness of purpose between the Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil was in a great measure the result of the direction given by the statesman to the poet's genius.

It has fallen to the lot of no other patron of literature to have his name associated with works of such lasting interest as the Georgics of Virgil, the first three books of Horace's Odes, and the first book of his Epistles.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.

A major critical issue in considering the Georgics is the assessment of tone ; Virgil seems to waver between optimism and pessimism, sparking a great deal of debate on the poem's intentions.

With the Georgics Virgil is again credited with laying the foundations for later didactic poetry.

The biographical tradition says that Virgil and Maecenas took turns reading the Georgics to Octavian upon his return from defeating Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.

The De rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil ( in his Aeneid and Georgics, and to a lesser extent in his Eclogues ) and Horace.

In the work of another author in late Republican Rome, Virgil writes in the second book of his Georgics, clearly referring to Lucretius, that " Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all fears, unavoidable fate, and the din of the devouring Underworld.

This belief was affirmed by Seneca the Younger in his Phaedra and by Virgil in his Georgics.

The term " Ultima Thule " (: most distant Thule ) is also mentioned by the Roman poet Virgil in his pastoral poems called the Georgics.

She is mentioned by Virgil as being " yellow haired " in the Georgics 4.

* The story of Ixion is also told by Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome of the Bibliotheca, 1. 20 ; Diodorus Siculus, 4. 69. 3 -. 5 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 33 ( mention ) and 62 ; Virgil in Georgics 4 and Aeneid 6, and by Ovid in Metamorphoses 12.

It appears to be an imitation of Hesiod, and to have been imitated by Virgil in some parts of the Georgics.

10. 77, Ex Ponto 4. 5. 5, Virgil Georgics 1. 492.

Some of his criticisms on Virgil may be preserved in the commentary on the Bucolics and Georgics which goes under his name.

X. 1. 95 ), Varro was recognized as an important source by many other ancient authors, among them Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Virgil in the Georgics, Columella, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, Augustine, and Vitruvius, who credits him ( VII. Intr. 14 ) with a book on architecture.

Virgil coined the term Ultima Thule ( Georgics, 1.

Chapman also translated the Homeric Hymns, the Georgics of Virgil, The Works of Hesiod ( 1618, dedicated to Francis Bacon ), the Hero and Leander of Musaeus ( 1618 ), and the Fifth Satire of Juvenal ( 1624 ).

24, 29 ; Euripides, Andromache 1012 ; Virgil Georgics iv.

The publication ( 1769 ) of his translation of the Georgics of Virgil made him famous.

The ancient Romans further developed the techniques learnt from the Etruscans, as shown by numerous works of literature containing information that is still valid today: De Agri Cultura ( around 160 BC ) by Cato the Elder, De re rustica by Marcus Terentius Varro, the Georgics by Virgil and De re rustica by Columella.

Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( 1728 – 1737, illustrated by Jacob van Huysum ), and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues ( 1749 ) and Georgics ( 1741 ) of Virgil.

In it, he is seen by Dante and his guide Virgil being punished in Hell's Eighth Circle ( Bolgia 1 ) by being driven to march through the circle for all eternity while being whipped by devils.

In Eclogues 1 and 9, Virgil indeed dramatizes the contrasting feelings caused by the brutality of the land expropriations through pastoral idiom, but offers no indisputable evidence of the supposed biographic incident.

At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.

Huntsville, also known as " Rocket City " because it is a major center for space technology and rocket development, simultaneously named Ed White Middle School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for his Apollo 1 crewmates.

Some claim that Virgil meant to change them before he died, while others find that the location of the two passages, at the very end of the so-called Volume I ( Books 1 – 6, the Odyssey ), and Volume II ( Books 7 – 12, the Iliad ), and their short length, which contrasts with the lengthy nature of the poem, are evidence that Virgil placed them purposefully there.

Wyatt, James and Virgil Earp, along with their wives, arrived in Tombstone during the initial period of its chaotic growth on about December 1, 1879 when there were only a few hundred residents.

At about 1: 00 pm, Virgil and Morgan Earp surprised Ike on 4th Street where Virgil buffaloed ( pistol-whipped ) him from behind.

Before leaving the Moon on Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong's final task was to place a small package of memorial items to honor Komarov, Yuri Gagarin, and the Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee.

* Virgil V. Topazio, " Diderot's Supposed Contribution to D ' Holbach's Works ", in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, LXIX, 1, 1954, pp. 173 – 188.

Virgil introduces two very important uses of pastoral, the contrast between urban and rural lifestyles and political allegory most notably in Eclogues 1 and 4 respectively.

1 ; the other included in the Catalepton, the collection of small poems attributed to Virgil ) indicate the esteem in which he was held.

Incorporated within the production programming of Animating Opera is the America staged premiere of Messiaen's Saint-François d ' Assise, the complete version of Berlioz's Les Troyens, Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, as well as a commission for a new work by John Adams and Peter Sellars entitled Doctor Atomic, which premiered on October 1, 2005.

When Tombstone was incorporated as a city on February 1, 1881, Virgil chose not to run against Sippy.

On October 1, 1974, Rodgers ’ five manual Carnegie Hall organ, designed by Virgil Fox, debuted in a sold-out Fox concert.

Virgil Films and Entertainment ( under license from the estates of Donna Reed and Tony Owen ) released the first three seasons of the show on DVD in Region 1.

They represent the Apollo 1 crew Virgil Ivan " Gus " Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.

* Virgil's full name is revealed as " Virgil Ovid Hawkins " in the animated episode, They're Playing My Song, and in the first issue of Static ( Trial By Fire, Part 1: Burning Sensation ).

* Virgil Fox / Heavy Organ – Bach Live at Fillmore East ; recorded Dec. 1, 1970 ( released on LP 1971, on CD 1989 )