Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.
C.), known as Virgil , was born near Mantua in the last days of the Roman Republic.
His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles\' Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award)..
Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He taught at Yale University for many years.
Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard\'s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.
C.
His translations include Sophocles\'s Three Theban Plays , Aeschylus\'s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer\'s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer\'s Odyssey , and Virgil\'s Aeneid .
He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Marks \'19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
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Virgil is also credited with authoring two other major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues and the Georgics.
In his comparatively short life he became the supreme poet of his age, whose Aeneid gave the Romans a great national epic equal to the Greeks\', celebrating their city\'s origins and the creation of their empire.
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.
C.), known as Virgil , was born near Mantua in the last days of the Roman Republic
