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When did Virgil compose the Georgics?

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Ancient Roman mosaic showing the poet Virgil seated and writing, flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, displayed in a decorative border. — Virgil Virgil (centre) holding a scroll with a quotation from the *Aeneid* and flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, mosaic, early 3rd century ce; in the Bardo National Museum, Tunis, Tunisia.

Virgil composed the Georgics between 37 and 30 BCE. This work was written during the final period of the Roman civil wars as a plea for the restoration of traditional agricultural life in Italy, which had suffered from neglect and depopulation due to the ongoing conflict.12