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  2. Eclogues - Wikipedia

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    Incipit page of Eclogue 1 in a 1482 Italian translation of Bucolics. Several scholars have attempted to identify the organizational principles underpinning the construction of the book. [3] [4] Most commonly the structure has been seen to be symmetrical, turning around eclogue 5, with a triadic pattern.

  3. 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]

  4. 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.

  5. Eclogue 6 - Wikipedia

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    Eclogue 6 (Ecloga VI; Bucolica VI) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil. In BC 40, a new distribution of lands took place in North Italy, and Alfenus Varus and Cornelius Gallus were appointed to carry it out. [ 1 ]

  6. Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus - Wikipedia

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    Eclogue II (featuring an amoebaean song contest) and Eclogue VI (which relates to an aborted amoebaean song contest), providing a middle frame around Eclogue IV, corresponding to Virgil's Eclogues III and VII. [7] Poems with dialogue (Eclogues II, IV and VI) are interwoven with poems containing long monologues (Eclogues I, III, V and VII). [8]

  7. 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.

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  9. Eclogue 3 - Wikipedia

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    In Eclogue 5 Menalcas declares that he is good at making verses and claims to be the author of Eclogues 2 and 3 (which he quotes by their first lines). In Eclogue 9, a certain Lycidas says that he had heard that Menalcas, through his poems, had managed to save the farm where Moeris works; but Moeris tells him that alas Menalcas's poems were ...