Influences On Virgil's Life

Not many people end up living through civil wars and befriending the ruler of their country, only to then become one of the best known poets in history. Virgil’s life was full of surprises, all of those things being some of them. Born into a higher class family with a low class worker as a father, but a mother born with a rich family, Virgil did many amazing things with his writings. Many people wonder about what could have helped him create the stories and guides he did, so here are a few. Virgil’s works were influenced not only by his family and childhood, but also by the locations he lived in, along with the relations he had with others and his life experiences.

Virgil’s family influenced him and his works in many ways. His father was a very poor worker who was either a potter or a laborer. On the other hand, his mother came from a very wealthy family who let her marry his father due to the fact that he was a very

He spent time in places such as Cremona, Milan, and Rome, where he spent his time studying things such as medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and rhetoric(Wilhelm). Although, much of his early life was spent at home reading and writing so he could be close to his family, especially when his father was blind and dying. The place Virgil recorded to be his favorite place to have ever lived at though was the island of Naples. While there, he studied with the philosopher Siro, and after Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C. he returned to Mantova and began his work on the Eclogues. The Eclogues were a series about the lives of farmers, documenting the politically motivated confiscation of farms, agriculture, and how the farmers worked and lived their daily lives. All these things were what Virgil experienced first and while living in places like his family’s farm in Mantua and the rural areas in Naples. But there was something else that may have been the most influential thing in his