HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Capitoline Hill
30 Mar 2017
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Has to leave his newborn goats for africa, scythia, or britain. Must leave the land he has cultivated to barbarous veterans. Tityrus went to rome to plead for his land and augustus granted his request, leaving him free. Corydon, sicilian shepherd and his love for alexis. Very passionate, does not sought shelter in the midday sun. Prophesies the birth of a child who will usher in a new golden age when peace will prevail. Land will no longer need plowing and pruning. The poet will not survive to see this land, but he rejoices at be able to bid the infant to smile at his mother. Vergil does not state if it is antony or augustus" child. Mopsus lament for daphnis, who is mourned by nymphs, by lions, and by the men whom he taught to celebrate bacchic rites. Since the death - crops have failed.
