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en-wikipedia-org-424		Eclogues - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2092	250	66	Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. It is likely that Virgil deliberately designed and arranged his book of Eclogues, in which case it is the first extant collection of Latin poems in the same meter put together by the poet. In Eclogue 10, Virgil caps his book by inventing a new myth of poetic authority and origin: he replaces Theocritus' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend, the elegiac poet Gaius Cornelius Gallus, imagined dying of love in Arcadia. Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues in English Verse. The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil at Project Gutenberg (in Latin)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-424.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-424.txt