HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Theocritus, Georgics, Otium
30 Mar 2017
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Eclogues (vergil (e version - magical powers)) Book of 10 poems, order is very important. Negotium work has to be done. Rome is like a cypress, and the rest is shrubs. Tenor thing that is being described (rome) Vehicle what is being used to describe it (cypress) Printed on coins of caesar and octavian. Peculium specific part of the roman economic dynamic. Pathetic fallacy attribute to something the ability to feeling suffering that does not have the ability to feel suffering. He is able to keep his land, but he is still a slave. People thought vergil was prophesying about the future. A christian prophet, knew christ was coming shortly after his death. Interpretations: christ, pollio, octavian, octavia and antony, antony and. The growth and development of the boy and all the things that will come.
