Read the Georgics at Atella
· Ancient Atella archaeological site, Sant'Arpino, Campania, Italy
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Virgil read the Georgics to Augustus for four successive days while the ruler rested at Atella after returning from the Actian campaigns; Maecenas substituted when Virgil's voice failed. The ancient biography gives no explicit year. About 29 BC is conventionally inferred from Augustus's post-Actium return.
