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Created page with "== Early Life == Publius Vergilius Maro, known as Virgil or Vergil, was born on October 15, 70 BC, in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (modern-day Northern Italy). The son of a farmer, Virgil was educated in Cremona, Milan, and finally Rome, where he studied rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy, which he soon abandoned for philosophy. == Works == Virgil's first major work, the "Eclogues" (also called "Bucolics"), was published in 37 BC. The ten s..."