section_path: Legacy and reception/Renaissance and early modernity
section_name: Renaissance and early modernity
paragraph_text: Renaissance and early modernity
  
  The Renaissance saw a number of authors inspired to write epic in Virgil's wake: Edmund Spenser called himself the English Virgil; Paradise Lost was influenced by the example of the Aeneid; and later artists influenced by Virgil include Berlioz and Hermann Broch.