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The Digital Walters - W.402, Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics

Abstract

Virgil, otherwise known as Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BCE-19 BCE), was a Roman poet who lived and worked during the reign of Emperor Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE). In addition to the Eclogues (or Bucolics) and the Georgics, he is best known for his epic poem The Aeneid. The Eclogues is composed of ten individual poems in dactylic hexameter, the meter used for all of Virgil's works. The structure and content of the Eclogues is based on Greek bucolic poetry, a genre created by the poet Theocritus, who lived in the third century BCE. Bucolic poetry is usually set in the country and highlights the pleasures of a simple, pastoral life. The Eclogues are adapted from this model but discuss Rome's turbulent history between 44 and 38 BCE after the death of Julius Caesar. The Georgics was produced ca. 29 BCE and is written in four books that focus on rural life and farming, extolling the benefits of country life, and taking many cues from the “Works and Days” by the Greek poet Hesiod (mid-eighth to mid-seventh century BCE). However, the text is also largely an allegorical commentary on the end of the Roman Republic and beginning of the Roman Empire in the mid to late first century BCE, a tumultuous time in the city's history. The parchment and decoration of the Walters version are fairly simple, and the text is heavily annotated, suggesting it served a student's textbook in the fifteenth century.

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    1. Upper board outside

    2. Upper board inside

    3. Front flyleaf i, r

    4. Front flyleaf i, v

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    109. Back flyleaf i, r

    110. Back flyleaf i, v

    111. Back flyleaf ii, r

    112. Back flyleaf ii, v

    113. Lower board inside

    114. Lower board outside

    115. Spine

    116. Fore-edge

    117. Head

    118. Tail

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