Time frame of the stories and some background

Virgil's Eclogues took about eight years to write. From 45 B.C., when he first started writing, to 37 B.C., when all of the stories were published. Right after that, he started the Georgics and those books took him about seven years to complete. From 37 B.C. to 30 B.C. he worked on the books dedicated to the Maecenas, who used a lot of the agricultural techniques Virgil described in his books. The Georgics also celebrated nature and how humans should live in harmony with it. His Aeneid took him about 12 years to almost complete the story, from 30 B.C. to 19 B.C. After his death, Virgil's friends,Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca, added the finishing touches and completed the Aeneid in 18 B.C. Virgil's Eclogues were written while he was in Mantova. His Georgics were written while he was in Naples, the city he apparently loved the most. With the Aeneid, Virgil traveled to complete the story and fell ill in between Athens and Brundisium (modern day Brindisi) where he died almost at the age of 51.