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Podcast: New Books in Ancient History
Episode: Andrea Cucchiarelli, "A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Description: Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore complex elements of poetic, literary, philosophical, and even figurative culture, and to express the drama of civil war and expropriations. In A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues (Oxford UP, 2023), accompanied by a detailed introduction, Andrea Cucchiarelli analyses the Eclogues in depth, establishing comparisons with both Greek and Roman poetic models, with philosophical texts, and...