TY  - BOOK
AU  - Virgil
AU  - Mellin,Robert
TI  - Bucolica
AV  - PA 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Country life -- Rome -- Poetry
KW  - Pastoral poetry, Latin -- Translations into Finnish
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclogues; Release date is 2006-11-26; Produced by Matti Järvinen, Tuija Lindholm and Distributed Proofreaders Europe; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Bucolica" by Virgil is a collection of ten pastoral poems written between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Drawing on Greek bucolic poetry, Virgil transforms the genre by weaving political upheaval and revolutionary change into traditional shepherd songs. The eclogues feature herdsmen conversing in rural settings, performing singing contests, and grappling with land confiscations, unrequited love, and visionary prophecies. Through carefully structured poems alternating between dialogue and monologue, Virgil created a work that blends mythology, eroticism, and contemporary Roman politics into a sophisticated pastoral vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19917
ER  -