Abstract

This research introduces some reflections about Virgil’s bucolic poetry and his originality. Considerations are made about the origins of this genre, as well as about the themes which are recurrent in bucolic poetry, such as bucolic landscape, heterosexual and homosexual love, love-admiration, and mythological elements. We have divided the study of Virgilian style in three parts. In the first part, the presence of Hellenic traits in the work Bucolics is suggested. In the second part, recurrent syntactic structures in his poetry are explored: syntactic parallelism, the use of the vocative, the use of the imperative form, ellipsis and zeugma. Finally, focus is given to rhythm, musicality and figures of harmony, repetition and chiasm, of thinking and tropes. Political allusions in Virgil are also discussed and exemplified in this dissertation. In the conclusion, two special literary genres are introduced, which feature in Bucolics – the amebeu chant and the epigram, which contribute to Virgil’s poem being a text in which one can notice hybridism, in generic terms. Virgil’s Bucolics became a paradigmatic work to literature in civilizations of both Greek and Latin ascent.

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