The Eclogues by Publius Virgilius Maro 1960 The Heritage Press w/Slipcase GC The Slipcase and the spine has minor tears. The book is in Good Condition. See pictures. Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues.The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty.#Theeclogues#PubliusVirgiliusMaro#Theheritagepress#vintagebooks#bookstore