How did Virgil read Theocritus?

• Autores: Styliani Hatzikosta
• Localización: Myrtia: revista de filología clásica, ISSN-e 1989-4619, ISSN 0213-7674, Nº 16, 2001, págs. 105-110
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper will try to support the thesis that Virgil read in Theocritus' so-called bucolic poems the poet's renunciation of bucolic poetry as inviable expression of contemporary society. He agreed with it and expressed his agreement chiefly in the Eclogues , composed in a period of political turbulence and social unrest. The support of this thesis is based on the examination of characteristic passages of the two poets and of few other passages which, I believe, point to this direction; the examination focuses on the ways Virgil imitated and adapted his literary model.