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title: Eclogues
author: Virgil
illustrator: Vertes
year: 1960
condition: A clean copy in excellent condition. Strong binding and spine. Clean, tear-free, and stainless pages.
publisher: Heritage Press, New York
pages: 96
dimensions: 12.5 inches x 9.5 inches x .5 inch
description: Hardcover, white and green book bound in cloth over decorative silk. Decorated in golden text and decor along the spine and cover. Includes 25 beautiful full-color illustrations by Vertes.
synopsis: "Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire-a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry.