The other ancient poetry knockout punch. Virgil was a follower of Homer and wrote in his style, the epic poem. He even adapted the same poetic meter, Datyllic Hexameter, for use in his work. He lived in Rome during the reign of Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. After the turbulance of the civil war era, the emperor wanted a great patriotic epic to symbolize the new Rome and to start the new Pax Romana. Virgil wrote the Aeneid at this request. But he wrote a lot of poetry before that idealizing Roman rural life.

Great Works-Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid