Vergil: The Poet's Life Ivan Passer Extracts from her bestselling novel

Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn

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Vergil: The Poet's Life Ivan Passer Extracts from her bestselling novelA biography of Vergil, Romes greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid. The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (7019 BCE) became the worlds first media celebrity, a living legend. But the real Vergil is a shadowy figure; we know that he was born into a modest rural family, that he led a