THE ATHENAEUMThe Bucolics and EcloguesVirgil
Poetry
The Bucolics and Eclogues(eBook #229)
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textTen short pastoral poems in which shepherds sing, grieve and compete, while the land confiscations after the civil wars go on in the background. The fourth, which foretells the birth of a child who will bring back the golden age, was read for centuries as a prophecy of Christ. They were Virgil’s first book, finished in his early thirties.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 25 minutes
- Where to find it
- The Latin Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #229. In the public domain in the United States.