tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742475.post110246061651407656..comments2023-06-01T09:09:04.165-04:00Comments on CAMPVS MAWRTIVS: VergilianaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742475.post-1102533901471378572004-12-08T14:25:00.000-05:002004-12-08T14:25:00.000-05:00interesting--would you see 9.46-50, where daphnis ...interesting--would you see 9.46-50, where daphnis sees the star of caesar, as some kind of interesection of the contemporary and the more 'pastoral' characters? here are the lines (lycidas quoting menalcas):<br /><br />"Daphni, quid antiquos signorum suspicis ortus?<br />Ecce Dionaei processit Caesaris astrum,<br />astrum quo segetes gauderent frugibus et quo<br />duceret apricis in collibus uva colorem.<br />Insere, Daphni, piros: carpent tua poma nepotes."Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00376310874650940934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742475.post-1102486769162774452004-12-08T01:19:00.000-05:002004-12-08T01:19:00.000-05:00Call me crazy, and I haven't thought about this mu...Call me crazy, and I haven't thought about this much, but when we read the first eclogue I had the overwhelming impression that Vergil was having contemporary events encroach upon the world of Theocritean pastoral perhaps as some kind of literary commentary.<br /><br />I'm just now thinking about that again, but I would add that not all of the characters recur, and that many seem not to be contemporary with the narrator, but rather appear in recollection or narrative.<br /><br />I'm working on clearing this up in my prosopographical study.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16120834478904784011noreply@blogger.com