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  2. Eclogue - Wikipedia

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    The beginning of Virgil's Eclogues, 15th century manuscript, Vatican Library. An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. The term is also used for a musical genre thought of as evoking a pastoral scene.

  3. Eclogues - Wikipedia

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    The opening lines of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus. The Eclogues (/ ˈ ɛ k l ɒ ɡ z /; Latin: Eclogae [ˈɛklɔɡae̯], lit. ' selections '), also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. [1]

  4. Eclogue 1 - Wikipedia

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    In 3.1, Meliboeus is mentioned briefly as the possible owner of a flock of sheep. In Eclogue 7 he appears herding sheep and goats, and he is the narrator who retells story of the contest between Corydon and Thyrsis. Eclogue 1.71 suggests that Meliboeus is portrayed as a full Roman citizen, not a slave. [21]

  5. Bucolics - Wikipedia

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  7. Eclogue 9 - Wikipedia

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    In Eclogue 5, he caps Mopsus's song about Daphnis with one of his own, and in 5.85–87 he claims to be the author of Eclogues 2 and 3, which he quotes by their first lines. In Eclogue 10, in the guise of a cowherd, he consoles the love-sick poet Cornelius Gallus , who is imagined to have retired to Arcadia .

  8. Pastoral - Wikipedia

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    Pastoral is a mode of literature in which the author employs various techniques to place the complex life into a simple one. Paul Alpers distinguishes pastoral as a mode rather than a genre, and he bases this distinction on the recurring attitude of power; that is to say that pastoral literature holds a humble perspective toward nature.

  9. Georgics - Wikipedia

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    Cristoforo Majorana – Leaf from Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid – Walters W40016V – Open Reverse. Virgil's model for composing a didactic poem in hexameters is the archaic Greek poet Hesiod, whose poem Works and Days shares with the Georgics the themes of man's relationship to the land and the importance of hard work.