It's Latin for "Barker" and appears in Virgil's Eclogues and Ovid's Metamorphoses.
September 29, 2026 at 5:08 AM
It's Latin for "Barker" and appears in Virgil's Eclogues and Ovid's Metamorphoses.
📖 Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1â6 by Virgil, G. P. Goold, H. Rushton Fairclough
https://isbn.nu/9780674995833
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September 26, 2026 at 8:15 PM
📖 Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1â6 by Virgil, G. P. Goold, H. Rushton Fairclough
https://isbn.nu/9780674995833
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21 September 19 BC
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
September 21, 2026 at 9:38 PM
21 September 19 BC
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
in Virgil's Eclogues Aegle is mentioned like so: that when this guy was sleeping dead drunk after a night of partying, Aegle and her friends amused herself by drawing on his face.
September 21, 2026 at 8:17 AM
in Virgil's Eclogues Aegle is mentioned like so: that when this guy was sleeping dead drunk after a night of partying, Aegle and her friends amused herself by drawing on his face.
21 September 19. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) died (aged 50). He’s ranked as one of Rome’s greatest poets. He wrote 3 of the most famous poems in Latin literature: The Eclogues, The Georgics and the epic Aeneid.
September 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM
21 September 19. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) died (aged 50). He’s ranked as one of Rome’s greatest poets. He wrote 3 of the most famous poems in Latin literature: The Eclogues, The Georgics and the epic Aeneid.
The ECLOGUES are pretty interesting, but I’ll be honest—the only way I’m making it through the GEORGICS is by imagining them as predecessors to Whitman.
September 16, 2026 at 1:31 AM
The ECLOGUES are pretty interesting, but I’ll be honest—the only way I’m making it through the GEORGICS is by imagining them as predecessors to Whitman.
This translation of THE ECLOGUES AND THE GEORGICS was done by C. Day Lewis. Name rings a bell. He’s Daniel Day Lewis’s father… and he’s also Nicholas Blake.
Incredibly tiny world.
Incredibly tiny world.
(In translation. I just picked up the Oxford World’s Classics edition)
September 12, 2026 at 10:30 AM
This translation of THE ECLOGUES AND THE GEORGICS was done by C. Day Lewis. Name rings a bell. He’s Daniel Day Lewis’s father… and he’s also Nicholas Blake.
Incredibly tiny world.
Incredibly tiny world.
A reimagining of Virgil's ECLOGUES in an African landscape that evokes the troubled history of land dispossession in South Africa.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: Richard Whitaker's AFRICAN PASTORAL: Versions of Virgil's Eclogues
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#poetry #Africa #eclogues #Virgil
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: Richard Whitaker's AFRICAN PASTORAL: Versions of Virgil's Eclogues
DOWNLOAD: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
#poetry #Africa #eclogues #Virgil
September 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
A reimagining of Virgil's ECLOGUES in an African landscape that evokes the troubled history of land dispossession in South Africa.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: Richard Whitaker's AFRICAN PASTORAL: Versions of Virgil's Eclogues
DOWNLOAD: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
#poetry #Africa #eclogues #Virgil
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess: Richard Whitaker's AFRICAN PASTORAL: Versions of Virgil's Eclogues
DOWNLOAD: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
#poetry #Africa #eclogues #Virgil
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
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Shepherd's Siesta (Six Eclogues of Portugal, No 5)
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Pamela Harrison
Shepherd's Siesta (Six Eclogues of Portugal, No 5)
August 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Classical Wind Down: Calm your senses with soothing music
Now Playing
Pamela Harrison
Shepherd's Siesta (Six Eclogues of Portugal, No 5)
Classical Wind Down: Calm your senses with soothing music
Now Playing
Pamela Harrison
Shepherd's Siesta (Six Eclogues of Portugal, No 5)
Eclogues and Tibullus book 1!
August 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Eclogues and Tibullus book 1!
Am thinking «Brownstone Eclogues» by Conrad Aiken.
Matter of fact, am sure whatever I was writing about in CCHR was either inspired by or quoted from Conrad Aiken, discant.
I mean, that's what jazz is all *about*.
Impossible to hate on American culture/music based on a few wrong notes disavowed.
Matter of fact, am sure whatever I was writing about in CCHR was either inspired by or quoted from Conrad Aiken, discant.
I mean, that's what jazz is all *about*.
Impossible to hate on American culture/music based on a few wrong notes disavowed.
August 5, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Am thinking «Brownstone Eclogues» by Conrad Aiken.
Matter of fact, am sure whatever I was writing about in CCHR was either inspired by or quoted from Conrad Aiken, discant.
I mean, that's what jazz is all *about*.
Impossible to hate on American culture/music based on a few wrong notes disavowed.
Matter of fact, am sure whatever I was writing about in CCHR was either inspired by or quoted from Conrad Aiken, discant.
I mean, that's what jazz is all *about*.
Impossible to hate on American culture/music based on a few wrong notes disavowed.
a crime against nature, "male on male performing the unseemliness," which Christianity has banished. To this loathsome form of sensuality, Roman poets once unblushingly sung praises.
Read Virgils second eclogues
Read Virgils second eclogues
July 30, 2026 at 6:19 PM
a crime against nature, "male on male performing the unseemliness," which Christianity has banished. To this loathsome form of sensuality, Roman poets once unblushingly sung praises.
Read Virgils second eclogues
Read Virgils second eclogues
"Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori" (Virgil, Eclogues x)
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July 27, 2026 at 3:23 AM
"Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori" (Virgil, Eclogues x)
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Virgil on his deathbed: No.... burn it.... I will be known for my Eclogues....
Augustus: for your fucking what?!
Augustus: for your fucking what?!
July 27, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Virgil on his deathbed: No.... burn it.... I will be known for my Eclogues....
Augustus: for your fucking what?!
Augustus: for your fucking what?!
Petrarch, Italian Renaissance poet & scholar, 'father of humanism', rediscovered Cicero’s letters, enriched Italian language & refined sonnet form; died #OTD 1374.
Petrarch’s Virgil, title page c. 1336, MS illumination by Simone Martini, Sienese artist friend of Petrarch. ALT
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Petrarch’s Virgil, title page c. 1336, MS illumination by Simone Martini, Sienese artist friend of Petrarch. ALT
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
July 19, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Petrarch, Italian Renaissance poet & scholar, 'father of humanism', rediscovered Cicero’s letters, enriched Italian language & refined sonnet form; died #OTD 1374.
Petrarch’s Virgil, title page c. 1336, MS illumination by Simone Martini, Sienese artist friend of Petrarch. ALT
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Petrarch’s Virgil, title page c. 1336, MS illumination by Simone Martini, Sienese artist friend of Petrarch. ALT
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
If you're not going to be at the #NYCPoetryFestival, you can find buy links for the epic/narrative poems in this thread at this page on Forgotten Ground Regained:
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Long Poems in Alliterative Verse: Epics, Eclogues, and Other Book-Length Publications
Long alliterative poems in book form include Auden's Age of Anxiety, Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur, Rajul Gupta's Arthuriad, Benjamin John Peter's Sigurd's Lament, and S. Scott Breneman's Noble Rider.
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July 17, 2026 at 2:28 PM
If you're not going to be at the #NYCPoetryFestival, you can find buy links for the epic/narrative poems in this thread at this page on Forgotten Ground Regained:
alliteration.net/books/long-p...
alliteration.net/books/long-p...
He wasn't 100% my area so I'll let those more expert give definitive lists, but here's a summary/link to an article.
Some examples are him referring to Charlemagne as David or Aeneas, and taking names from Virgil's Eclogues for his pupils.
Some examples are him referring to Charlemagne as David or Aeneas, and taking names from Virgil's Eclogues for his pupils.
The Social World of Alcuin: Nicknames at York and at the Carolingian Court - Medievalists.net
In almost every book on the Carolingian world, and even in most textbooks on medieval history, there is some mention of the nicknames in use among the members of Charlemagne's entourage
www.medievalists.net
July 15, 2026 at 9:25 AM
He wasn't 100% my area so I'll let those more expert give definitive lists, but here's a summary/link to an article.
Some examples are him referring to Charlemagne as David or Aeneas, and taking names from Virgil's Eclogues for his pupils.
Some examples are him referring to Charlemagne as David or Aeneas, and taking names from Virgil's Eclogues for his pupils.
"Will that be all for tonight Mr Virgil?"
"No, I think I'll wrap up a couple more Eclogues before turning in."
"No, I think I'll wrap up a couple more Eclogues before turning in."
July 6, 2026 at 12:48 AM
"Will that be all for tonight Mr Virgil?"
"No, I think I'll wrap up a couple more Eclogues before turning in."
"No, I think I'll wrap up a couple more Eclogues before turning in."
Optime scriptum!
No worries: your photo just reminded me of a few lines of Vergil's Eclogues (No. 2, lines 12-13). In English:
But with me, while I trace your tracks,
the groves resound with noisy cicadas
under the burning sun.
No worries: your photo just reminded me of a few lines of Vergil's Eclogues (No. 2, lines 12-13). In English:
But with me, while I trace your tracks,
the groves resound with noisy cicadas
under the burning sun.
June 13, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Optime scriptum!
No worries: your photo just reminded me of a few lines of Vergil's Eclogues (No. 2, lines 12-13). In English:
But with me, while I trace your tracks,
the groves resound with noisy cicadas
under the burning sun.
No worries: your photo just reminded me of a few lines of Vergil's Eclogues (No. 2, lines 12-13). In English:
But with me, while I trace your tracks,
the groves resound with noisy cicadas
under the burning sun.
If there's anyone out there who loves the Eclogues as I do, my personal view is that the poems are designed as paired in concentric circles, with two as a coda, as such:
1 - 9 socio-political
2 - 8 erotic
3 - 7 bucolic
4 -6 mythological
CODA: 5 & 10
1 - 9 socio-political
2 - 8 erotic
3 - 7 bucolic
4 -6 mythological
CODA: 5 & 10
June 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
If there's anyone out there who loves the Eclogues as I do, my personal view is that the poems are designed as paired in concentric circles, with two as a coda, as such:
1 - 9 socio-political
2 - 8 erotic
3 - 7 bucolic
4 -6 mythological
CODA: 5 & 10
1 - 9 socio-political
2 - 8 erotic
3 - 7 bucolic
4 -6 mythological
CODA: 5 & 10
This is such a wonderful read. The ninth Eclogue is perhaps my favorite, and a companion to the first, in my view.
(Also, I am *drooling* over that edition of the Eclogues and Georgics!)
(Also, I am *drooling* over that edition of the Eclogues and Georgics!)
Today I have written about Virgil remembering (and forgetting) older songs.
All these songs I have forgotten
On Virgil, Callimachus, Homer, Heraclitus, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney
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June 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is such a wonderful read. The ninth Eclogue is perhaps my favorite, and a companion to the first, in my view.
(Also, I am *drooling* over that edition of the Eclogues and Georgics!)
(Also, I am *drooling* over that edition of the Eclogues and Georgics!)
Oaxes, a river of Crete, which received its name from Oaxus the son of Apollo. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 1, li. 66.
June 8, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Oaxes, a river of Crete, which received its name from Oaxus the son of Apollo. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 1, li. 66.