In the last work of this collection, a general laments the loss of his mistress Lycoris, who has wandered into the Alps, while Demoetas and Menalcas invoke Apollo and Jove during an argument in the third. Containing an elegy to Daphnis, the inventor of the titular form, this work was modeled on the Idylls of Theocritus (the
In the last work of this collection, a general laments the loss of his mistress Lycoris, who has wandered into the Alps, while Demoetas and Menalcas invoke Apollo and Jove during an argument in the third. Containing an elegy to Daphnis, the inventor of the titular form, this work was modeled on the Idylls of Theocritus (thee-AWK-rit-us) and led to the author's friendship with Maecenas. The fourth and most famous alludes to the "Firstborn of the New Age," a messianic figure interpreted as either the child of Mark Antony and Octavia or Jesus Christ. For 10 points-- name this collection of ten pastoral poems published in 39 BC by Virgil.
In the last work of this collection, a general laments the loss of his mistress Lycoris, who has wandered into the Alps, while Demoetas and Menalcas invoke Apollo and Jove during an argument in the third.
{Eclogues} or {Bucolics}