Virgil's pastoral Eclogues followed the model of the GREEK Idylls of Theocritus; in parallel the Georgics can be linked back to Hesiod's Works and Days, from around 700 BC, which treated the agricultural year among other things. Fallon says he had completed a draft of the Hesiod by 2006, soon after the ...
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