Virgil

Roman poet — author of the Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid — the greatest Latin poet — whose Aeneid is the supreme Latin epic and the founding poem of Roman imperial identity.

Creates the Roman national epic and the most influential Latin poetry — The Aeneid's combination of Homeric epic form with Roman political destiny produced the foundational text of Latin literature; the Georgics is the supreme Latin didactic poem; together they are the primary models for Latin poetry for 2,000 years.