Why I did this

I chose to work with the writer Virgil because I was curious about his work. I had only read about his story, the Aeneid, in my class and how he had other works. When I didn't find any information about his work in our classroom textbook, I decided to use him and his work in this project to learn more about them. Once I started the project, I learned he only had the three works, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, but there was a lot to be said about all three. For example, how the Eclogues and the Georgics were stories relating to his farming background and how they were his first works, but they didn't give him quite the reputation the Aeneid did. I also learned that the Aeneid wasn't just a story to try to outdo Homer's work, but it was also intended to be a sequel to Homer's the Iliad. His work became very popular in ancient Rome and gave historians many insights about that time. Without Virgil's work, history of ancient Rome would probably been written differently than what it is now. His work was sold all over the lands Augustus Caesar had conquered, and has been translated into other languages so people from our time can enjoy his stories too. Authors like Virgil are the reason the "Age of Augustus" is also known as Rome's "Golden Age of Literature".