BucolicaWhat is ancient pastoral? The present work is designed to answer that question for students of ancient and modern poetry, for poets, and for the educated people. My essays are meant to depart from conventional discussion of the Bucolics and to share, even with the 'uninitiated', the fruits of a century of scholarship in Europe and America. Poetry is complicated stuff; the Bucolics may be the most difficult poetry to survive from the ancient world. -- Preface. |
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INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
IDYLLS | 7 |
THE BUCOLICS OF VIRGIL text and translation | 26 |
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Aeneid Aitia Alexis Alphesiboeus Amaryllis amor Amyntas ancient Apollo Arcadia atque bucolic bucolic world Callimachus carmina Catullus cave cicadas Corydon Culex Cyclops Damoetas Daphnis Desport Dionysus divine Ducite echo Eclogue Eclogue 9 Enkidu epic Epigram erotic Euripides facta fifth Eclogue flock fourth Eclogue Galatea Gallus genre Georgics gods Golden Age Greek haec Hellenistic herds herdsman hero Hesiod Homer Hubaux Idyll Incipe inspiration Iollas ipse Jachmann Klingner lament landscape Latin Lead Daphnis literary tradition Lucretius Lycidas mecum Meleager Meliboeus Menalcas mihi Moeris Mopsus motifs Muses myth nature nunc Nymphs Octavian Orpheus pastoral poetry Phoebus Pindar poem poet poet's poetic activity Pollio Propertius puer puer's quae quid reference rôle Roman poets rustic Servius shade shepherd shepherd-poet Silenus silvae Simichidas sing singer Skutsch song springs symbol tamen Thalysia themes Theocritean Theocritus Thyrsis tibi Tityrus trees umbra Varus verse Virgil Virgilian pastoral Wimmel words