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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 Eclogue 6.4, Virgil himself is addressed by the god Apollo as "Tityrus"; he goes on to narrate the song of the god Silenus. [19] This Tityrus is linked to the Tityrus of Eclogue 1 by the phrase "I shall sing of the rustic Muse on a thin reed" (6.8), which recalls a similar phrase in Eclogue 1.2. [20]

  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 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 .

  6. Eclogue 6 - Wikipedia

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    (Eclogue 6, ll. 80–6) 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] At his request that the poet would sing some epic strain, Virgil sent Varus these verses. [1]

  7. Bucolicum carmen - Wikipedia

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    Bucolicum carmen is an organic collection of twelve eclogues, composed by Petrarch from c. 1346–7 and published in 1357. [1] The last (Aggelos) contains the dedication of the sylloge to Donato Albanzani.

  8. Eclogue 5 - Wikipedia

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    Eclogue 5 (Ecloga V; Bucolica V) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil, one of his book of ten poems known as the Eclogues. In form, this is an expansion of the first Idyll of Theocritus , which contains a song about the death of the semi-divine herdsman Daphnis . [ 1 ]

  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.