Eclogues

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Eclogues is a collection of ten pastoral poems by the Roman poet Virgil that idealize rural life and helped shape the Western pastoral literary tradition.

All labels observed (14)

Label Occurrences
Eclogues canonical 4
Bucolics 2
Eclogue 1 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin literature work
pastoral poetry
poetry collection
alternativeName Eclogues
surface form: Bucolics
author Virgil
countryOfOrigin Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
dateWritten 1st century BCE
followedBy Virgil's Aeneid
surface form: Aeneid

Georgics
genre bucolic poetry
pastoral poetry
hasPart Eclogues self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eclogue 1

Eclogue 10
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surface form: Eclogue 2

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surface form: Eclogue 3

Messianic Eclogue
surface form: Eclogue 4

Eclogues self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eclogue 5

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surface form: Eclogue 6

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surface form: Eclogue 7

Eclogue 8
Eclogue 9
hasSubject herdsmen
rural deities
shepherds
influenced Alexander Pope
Edmund Spenser
English pastoral poetry
John Milton
Renaissance pastoral poetry
Romantic poets
pastoral literature
inspiredBy Theocritus
literaryForm hexameter poetry
literarySignificance foundational pastoral text
literaryTradition Western pastoral tradition
meter dactylic hexameter
notableEclogue Messianic Eclogue
surface form: Eclogue 4

Messianic Eclogue
numberOfPoems 10
originalLanguage Latin
partOf Virgil
surface form: Virgilian corpus
period Augustan age
setting idealized countryside
theme displacement
love
patronage
politics
rural life

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Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Virgil notableWork Eclogues
Virgil notableWork Eclogues
this entity surface form: Bucolics
motto "Novus ordo seclorum" inspiredBy Eclogues
subject surface form: Novus ordo seclorum
this entity surface form: Virgil's Eclogue IV
Hellenistic poetry hasNotableWork Eclogues
this entity surface form: Idylls
Augustan age hasMainWork Eclogues
Garcilaso de la Vega notableWork Eclogues
this entity surface form: Égloga I
Garcilaso de la Vega notableWork Eclogues
this entity surface form: Égloga II
Garcilaso de la Vega notableWork Eclogues
this entity surface form: Égloga III
Eclogues hasPart Eclogues self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eclogue 1
Eclogues hasPart Eclogues self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eclogue 2
Eclogues hasPart Eclogues self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eclogue 3
Eclogues hasPart Eclogues self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eclogue 5
Eclogues hasPart Eclogues self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eclogue 6
Eclogues hasPart Eclogues self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eclogue 7
Eclogues alternativeName Eclogues
this entity surface form: Bucolics
Georgics follows Eclogues
Theocritus influenced Eclogues
this entity surface form: Virgil's Eclogues