Mythology / aeneid
Facts about The Aeneid
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Book IV of the Aeneid, depicting Dido's suicide, contains 705 lines and represents the epic's most emotionally intense and frequently studied section.
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Augustus Caesar reportedly requested that Virgil's unfinished manuscript of the Aeneid be burned upon the poet's death, but the request was denied by Virgil's literary executors.
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Virgil spent approximately eleven years composing the twelve books of the Aeneid before his death in 19 BCE.