After his first two collections of pastoral poetry — “Bucolics” (also known as “Eclogues”) and “Georgics” — Virgil spent a dozen years working on “The Aeneid,” his epic account ...

320) was the first to read Virgil’s “Fourth Eclogue,” with its promise of a boy who would bring forth a golden race and rule the world in peace, as a prophecy of Christ’s birth.

Really? SARAH RUDEN: Virgil is hard. The first line of his first published work, the pastoral Eclogues, has got a colloquial word for “blanket” in it that was obtrusive enough for a Roman ...

It may seem strange for Christians to turn to a pagan text for revelations, but some scholars thought Virgil had the gift of prophecy. In the fourth of his Eclogue poems, Virgil seems to predict ...

Born a peasant, Virgil was raised on a farm before being educated in the Greek and Roman authors. His rural upbringing influenced all his poetry, especially his earlier work, like the “Eclogues”.

A series of small poems by Holly Pester, set in the brief pauses of work-breaks. Inspired by Virgil’s Eclogues and performed by Maggie Nicols and Keeley Forsyth. Show more A series of small ...

Born in 70 BC, Virgil (full name: Publius Vergilius Maro) was an ancient Roman poet who wrote the Latin epic poem "The Aeneid." Although Virgil’s writing continues to be highly acclaimed and ...

In 37BC, Virgil had finished his pastoral poems, the Eclogues. Over the next eight years, living near Naples, he composed the four books of the Georgics. After this eulogy to home-grown virtues ...

The National Museum in Warsaw has launched a new temporary exhibition drawing on the idyllic vision of a perfect world as described in Virgil's "Eclogues." The display, entitled Arcadia ...