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The Eclogues

Author
Virgil
Series
Epic Story
Language
English
Length
46 pages
ISBN
9781910343449
Published
15 June 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • pastoral poems
  • rural landscape
  • shepherds
  • love
  • labor
  • political realities
  • pastoral tradition
  • loss
  • peace
  • human condition

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"The Eclogues" by Virgil, also known as the "Bucolics," is a collection of ten pastoral poems that stand as a cornerstone of the genre. Set against the backdrop of an idealized rural landscape, these poems delve into the lives of shepherds, their loves, and their labors, interweaving personal narratives with the political realities of the time. Virgil's work beautifully captures the pastoral tradition, highlighting themes of love, loss, and the longing for peace in times of change. The "Eclogues" offer a poetic meditation on nature, society, and the human condition.

Author

Virgil (70–19 BCE) was born near Mantua, studied in Milan, Rome, and Naples, and wrote under the shadow of Augustus. The Eclogues are pastoral with a political weather; the Aeneid is Rome's epic of a man who leaves a burning city and must found another. Duty, piety, and the cost of a future: Aeneas carries them like luggage he cannot put down. Virgil died at Brundisium with the poem, tradition says, still unfinished.

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