. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. e Messianic Eclogue. Itis a strange poem. In the midst of abook of pastoral eclogues very closelymodelled on the Idylls of Theocritus,the young poet from Mantua insertsone in which he invites the SicilianMuses, that is, the Muses of Theo-critus, to assist him in a loftier strainthan usual. His poem is a vision,a prophecy ot a return of the golden age to accompany thebirth of a child. It is not easy to determine what child. Thepoem was written for the consulship of Pollio, who hadhelped Vergil to recover his paternal far
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. e Messianic Eclogue. Itis a strange poem. In the midst of abook of pastoral eclogues very closelymodelled on the Idylls of Theocritus,the young poet from Mantua insertsone in which he invites the SicilianMuses, that is, the Muses of Theo-critus, to assist him in a loftier strainthan usual. His poem is a vision,a prophecy ot a return of the golden age to accompany thebirth of a child. It is not easy to determine what child. Thepoem was written for the consulship of Pollio, who hadhelped Vergil to recover his paternal farm. Thus it is veryprobable that the poem was really a piece of very grossflattery directed to a patron. Nevertheless the propheciesof peace on earth which it foreshadows chime so strangelywith the Messianic language of Isaiah that the scholarsof the Middle Ages alternatively placed Vergil among theprophets or condemned him as a wizard. But apart fromthat approaching event to be witnessed in an obscure villageof the client-princedom of Judeea there was even in secular160.
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