THE ECOLOGUES, THE GEORGICS

The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems , were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second Triumvirate of Lepidus, Antony and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history.To his Greek model - the Idylls of Theocritus - he...

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Main Author: Virgil (Author)
Other Authors: Lewis, C. Day 1904-1972 Cecil Day (tranlated)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 1983
Series:The World's classics
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