Virgil Author

Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us as Virgil (70 B.C.–19 B.C.), is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid, in which he represented the Emperor Augustus as a descendant of the half-divine Aeneas, a refugee from the fall of Troy and legendary founder of Rome. Virgil claimed on his deathbed that The Aeneid was unfinished and expressed a desire to have it burned, but it became the national epic of ancient Rome, a monument of Latin literature, and has been regarded as one of the great classics of Western literature ever since. Virgil’s other works include the Eclogues and the Georgics, also considered masterpieces. David Hadbawnik is a poet, translator, teacher, and medieval scholar. He edited Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf (punctum books, 2012) and co-edited selections from Jack Spicer’s Beowulf (CUNY’s Lost and Found Document Series, 2011); he is the editor of the critical volume Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics (Medieval Institute Press, 2021); and he has published essays on medieval, early modern, and contemporary poetry. Other books include Ovid in Exile (Interbirth Books, 2007), Field Work (BlazeVox Books, 2011), and Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems (Delete Press, 2018). He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife and son.