He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues ( or Bucolics ), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.

Virgil is credited in the Eclogues with establishing Arcadia as a poetic ideal that still resonates in Western literature and visual arts and setting the stage for the development of Latin pastoral by Calpurnius Siculus, Nemesianus, and later writers.

The Roman poet Virgil adapted pastoral into Latin with his highly influential Eclogues.

It is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid.

( what then ), taken from Virgil's Eclogues: " So what, if Amyntas is dark?

Sometime after the publication of the Eclogues ( probably before 37 BC ), Virgil became part of the circle of Maecenas, Octavian's capable agent d ' affaires who sought to counter sympathy for Antony among the leading families by rallying Roman literary figures to Octavian's side.

This success he followed up by three privately printed volumes, Odes and Eclogues ( 1884 ), Lyrical Poems ( 1886 ), and The Story of Eudocia ( 1888 ).

* Corydon ( character ), stock-name for a shepherd in pastorals, especially a shepherd whose love for a boy is described in Virgil's Eclogues

Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( 1728 – 1737, illustrated by Jacob van Huysum ), and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues ( 1749 ) and Georgics ( 1741 ) of Virgil.

His works include: forty Sonetos ( Sonnets ), 22 Canciones ( Songs ), eight Coplas ( Couplets ), three Églogas ( Eclogues ), two Elegías ( Elegies ), and the Epístola a Bóscan ( Letter to Bóscan ).

The trick serves to demonstrate their powers ( Virgil Eclogues 8. 69 ), to perform a love spell ( Suetonius Tiberius 1. 8. 21 ) or to extract a magical juice from the moon ( Apuleius Metamorphoses 1. 3. 1 ).

He also wrote a treatise on verse, the Caesurae uersuum, and a collection of riddles, the Enigmata, influenced greatly by Aldhelm and containing many references to works of Vergil ( the Aeneid, the Georgics, and the Eclogues ).

This was supposedly inspired by Virgil's Eclogues: ... mate Gryphons with mares, and in the coming age shy deer and hounds together come to drink .., which would also be the source for the reputed medieval expression, if indeed it was one.

Barclay also translated the Mirrour of Good Manners, from the Italian of Dominic Mancini, and wrote five Eclogues, printed by Wynkyn de Worde about 1518.

He also translated Virgil's first two Eclogues.

The poem may have connections to the Hellenistic Arae of Euphorion of Chalcis, but it is also very much in the pastoral tradition of Theocritus and the Eclogues.

In most of the manuscripts there is a division into three books, forming two distinct works ; the first and second books forming one work under the title Physical and Moral Extracts (, or " Eclogues "), the third book forming another work, called Florilegium or Sermones, (, or " Anthology ").

The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues ( or Bucolics ) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 39 – 38 BC, although this is controversial.

The name Amaryllis is taken from a shepherdess in Virgil's pastoral Eclogues, from the Greek (), meaning " to sparkle ".

This is now thought to be an unsupported inference from interpretations of the Eclogues.

The first complete translation into English of the Arcadia is by Ralph Nash, Jacopo Sannazaro: Arcadia and Piscatorial Eclogues ( Detroit: Wayne State University Press ) 1966.

Virgil's Eclogues were performed as sung mime in the 1st century, and there is evidence of the pastoral song as a legitimate genre of classical times.

Patterson explains that Servius ' Commentary is essential to understanding the reception of Virgil's Eclogues.

It is taken from Virgil's Eclogues, Eclogue 1.

Indeed Virgil incorporates full lines in the Georgics of his earliest work, the Eclogues, although the number of repetitions is much smaller ( only 8 ) and it does not appear that any one line was reduplicated in all three of his works.

Strutt's Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor " Eclogues from a Vanished Land " plays for just 40 minutes and is intended to evoke the lost world of Edwardian rural England, especially the countryside which would have been known to the folk-song collectors, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger.

The two volumes became separated in the manuscript tradition, and the first volume became known as the Extracts ( Eclogues ) and the second volume became known as the Anthology ( Florilegium ).

The first two books (" Eclogues ") consist for the most part of extracts conveying the views of earlier poets and prose writers on points of physics, dialectics, and ethics.

The first pastorals in English were the Eclogues ( c. 1515 ) of Alexander Barclay, which were heavily influenced by Mantuan.

The first appearance of a tomb with a memorial inscription ( to Daphnis ) amid the idyllic settings of Arcadia appears in Virgil's Eclogues V 42 ff.

Virgil took the idealized Sicilian rustics that had first appeared in the Idylls of Theocritus and set them in the primitive Greek district of Arcadia ( see Eclogues VII and X ).

In emulation of Virgil's first work, the Eclogues, Spenser wrote this series of pastorals to begin his career.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

Of Lord Bowen's literary works besides those already indicated may be mentioned his translation of Virgil's Eclogues, and Aeneid, books i .- vi., and his pamphlet, The Alabama Claim and Arbitration considered from a Legal Point of View.

The Eclogues ( from the Greek for " selections ") are a group of ten poems roughly modeled on the bucolic hexameter poetry (" pastoral poetry ") of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus.

The Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi wrote both a poetic treatise on Garcilaso de la Vega's Eclogues, as well as a book of poems in homage to the Spanish master, entitled " Empire of Dreams ".

Spanish language poet Giannina Braschi wrote both a poetic treatise on Garcilaso de la Vega's Eclogues, as well as a book of poems in homage to the Spanish master, entitled Empire of Dreams.

The Piscatory Eclogues are pastorals, the characters of which are represented as fisher boys on the banks of the Cam, and are interesting for the light they cast on the biography of the poet himself ( Thyrsil ) and his father ( Thelgon ).

In 1797 the British Romantic poet Robert Southey — then a young Jacobin — included a section in his collection, " Poems ," a selection of poems under the heading, " Botany Bay Eclogues ," in which he portrayed the plight and stories of transported convicts in New South Wales.

Greek mythology inspired the Roman poet Virgil to write his Eclogues, a series of poems set in Arcadia.

The poet Robert Southey, who later in his life became one of the Lake poets and the Poet Laureate, lived in the village for a year in 1798 – 99, during which he wrote his Eclogues and much other poetry.