Bucoliche

Our familiar Virgil tempers the grandeur of the epic with loss, and strikes ambiguous moods in the midst of war glory; but, the lesser known Virgil floods the senses with a rustic imagination drunk on the colourful singing of country air through mountains and over streams. Here the world turns over, Leggi tutto

U eklogama glavni lik je prostor – irealno međuprožimanje čoveka i prirode. Čovek ekloge nije homo faber, onaj koji svetu pristupa sa umećem, već je homo pastor – bukolikos. U takvom svetu nema vremena – ni cikličnog ni linearnog – vremenska ravan je zapravo negde iza, ali ne i vremensko proticanje. Leggi tutto

I read this, mistakenly, because of Willa Cather; it wasn't until I brought it all the way home from the library that I checked again and saw that she was quoting not the Eclogues but the Georgics in My Ántonia . I read it anyway. The Eclogues (c.39 BC)—also and more descriptively known as the Bu Leggi tutto

I once spoke with a young goatherd on a wild Greek hillside and imagined for a moment I was in Arcadia, but I was rapidly aware of the disconnect between fantasy and reality. I could just about imagine him playing a flute but he and his goats exuded a very pungent and not very appealing odour, and a Leggi tutto

Un giorno Dafni sedeva all'ombra di un'elce frusciante,e Coridone e Tirsi vi avevano radunato greggi,Tirsi le pecore, Coridone le capre colme di latte;ambedue nel fiore dell'età, esperti nelle arti di Arcadia,pari nel canto, e pronti ugualmente a ribattere:là mi s'era sperduto proprio il caprone del Leggi tutto

Descobri que Quem é visto por um lobo fica afónico Lúcifer significa "Portador de Luz" e que é a palavra grega para Vénus Os gregos conhecem tantas plantas que deixei de as pesquisar (não é bem uma descoberta) As Declarações de Amor Não Correspondido mais lindas que li. Todos gays. Bué giro perceber que Leggi tutto