VIRGIL

VIRGIL

  

HISTORICAL EVENTS

70 BC Born 15 October, at Andes, Mantua. 78 BC
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59		 Death of Sulla.
First consulship of Pompey and Crassus Consulship of Cicero. Catiline conspiracy. Birth of Augustus.
First triumvirate.
Caesar’s first consulship.
c.55-c.49 Educated at Cremona and Milan. 58-49
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52		 Caesar in Gaul.
Second consulship of Pompey and Crassus. Third consulship of Pompey.
c.48-c.44 Studies philosophy and rhetoric in Rome 49-45
44		 Civil War.
Assassination of Caesar.
43 Returns to Mantua. Begins Eclogues. 43
42		 Second triumvirate. Proscriptions.
Battles of Philippi. Antony goes east. Birth of Tiberius.
41 Dispossessed of farm. 41 Confiscations of property.
c.40-37 Reinstated and lives in Rome and Campania. 38-35
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31		 War against Sextus Pompey.
Death of Sallust.
Antony divorces Octavia. War declared.
Battle of Actium.
37 Publication of Eclogues. Introduced to Maecenas.
30 Publication of Georgics. Begins Aeneid. 30 Fourth consulship of Octavian. Deaths of Antony and Cleopatra.
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25		 Seventh consulship of Octavian, who accepts a share of running the state and assumes the name of Augustus.
Agrippa completes the Pantheon.
23 Reads parts of Aeneid to Augustus and his family. 23 Augustus is ill. He receives wide-reaching powers. Death of Marcellus. First three books of Horace’s Odes.
19 Sets out for Greece and Asia. Returns from Athens with Augustus. Dies at Brundisium 20 September. 22-19 Visits by Augustus to Greece and Asia Minor.