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Surprisingly, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the Eclogues to appear in this century. These ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. Clausen's commentary provides a comprehensive guide to both the poems and the considerable... Read Full Overview

Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life of his native countryside... Read Full Overview

Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of The Odes of Horace and Gilgamesh

Written between 42 and 37 b.c., ten pastoral poems believed to be the first authentic work by Virgil are presented with the original Latin on the left-hand page and the translation on the right.

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire--a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid,... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Best remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political... Read Full Overview

Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil introduced political clamor... Read Full Overview

"In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. He] symbolizes so much in the history of Europe, and represents such central European values..." -T.S. Eliot

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" glogas", de Virgilio. Virgilio fue un poeta romano (70a.C.-19a.C.).

De doux paysages, des dieux et des nymphes, des bergeres coquettes et des bergers qui chantent l'amour et la poesie, voila l'Arcadie, pays de reve ou l'instant poetique devient eternite. Mais, aux alentours de ce paradis imaginaire, rodent les menaces des guerres civiles et des... Read Full Overview

"Eclogae vel bucolica" from Publius Vergilius Maro. Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19), poeta latinus.

The Eclogues of Virgil is a collection of ten pastoral poems written by the ancient Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro, commonly known as Virgil. The poems are set in the countryside and depict the lives of shepherds and their experiences with love, loss, and nature. The poems... Read Full Overview