HOW DID VIRGIL READ THEOCRITUS?

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  • Styliani Hatzikosta

Abstract

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.

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Author Biography

Styliani Hatzikosta

Departament of Classics Faculty of Philosophy University of Athens
How to Cite
Hatzikosta, S. (2001). HOW DID VIRGIL READ THEOCRITUS?. Myrtia, 16, 105–110. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/37301
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