HIST 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grotto
19 Mar 2016
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In eclogue 1: roman politics and the eviction, the character are meliboeus and his neighbour and friend tityrus. In the eclogues life is described as beautiful, an ideal life consists of singing love songs to their lover. Lying under the shaded beech tree and playing woodland songs on their flute. Mountains, rivers and trees are depicted as being alive, feeling sympathy, reacting to the feelings of humans. Tityrus buys his freedom from a young man at a low cost, simply praying to the young man, treating him like a god, this is rare for a slave to own land and is not allowed. This is just the happy part of the eclogue. As the story progresses the reader gets a glimpse of the undertones of this eclogue. Mantua, their land has been taken away from them and given to veteran warriors. To think that we have sown our fields for them to reap says meliboeus.
