{"title":"Virgil Eclogue 1.1-2: A Literary Programme?","authors":"F. Cairns","doi":"10.2307/311486","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"T is well known that Virgilian Eclogues tend to begin programmatically: flocks, herds, rustics, trees, woods, country musical instruments, and amoebean song underline their \"bucolic\" nature; \"literary\" keywords and allusions acknowledge their \"Alexandrian\" aspirations; and re-uses of Theocritean incipits and characters, along with references to Sicily, proclaim Virgil's indebtedness to his chief predecessor. Some such programmatic features are instantly recognisable in the first distich of the book:","PeriodicalId":81378,"journal":{"name":"Harvard studies in classical philology","volume":"99 1","pages":"289-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/311486","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Harvard studies in classical philology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/311486","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
T is well known that Virgilian Eclogues tend to begin programmatically: flocks, herds, rustics, trees, woods, country musical instruments, and amoebean song underline their "bucolic" nature; "literary" keywords and allusions acknowledge their "Alexandrian" aspirations; and re-uses of Theocritean incipits and characters, along with references to Sicily, proclaim Virgil's indebtedness to his chief predecessor. Some such programmatic features are instantly recognisable in the first distich of the book: