Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BCE), known as Virgil, was the greatest Latin poet. His Aeneid — the epic of Aeneas's journey from fallen Troy to found the Roman race — became the national epic of Rome and the central text of Latin literary education for two thousand years. His Georgics and Eclogues established the forms of didactic and pastoral poetry. Dante chose Virgil as his guide through Hell and Purgatory in the Divine Comedy.

• Nationality: roman
• Roles: poet, writer