Eclogue 2
Eclogue 2 (Ecloga II; Bucolica II) is a pastoral poem by the Latin poet Virgil. In this Eclogue the shepherd Corydon laments his inability to win the affections of the young Alexis.[1] It is an imitation of the eleventh Idyll of Theocritus, in which the Cyclops Polyphemus laments the cruelty of the sea-nymph Galatea.[1]
Summary
The subject of this poem is the complaint of a shepherd, Corydon, in love with a boy Alexis.[2] It is said to represent the admiration of Virgil for a young slave whom he saw at the house of his patron Asinius Pollio, and whose beauty he thus celebrates, in the conventional style of pastoral verse.[2]
The story further goes that Pollio, charmed with the poem, made a gift of the slave to the author; and that the slave, being carefully educated, became a celebrated grammarian under his real name Alexander.[2] According to J. B. Greenough, "This story, though not certain, is natural and probable."[2] Some parts of the poem are imitations of Theocritus.[3]
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