caa a22 4500 386344884 CHVBK 20180307111807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0017383500029326 doi S0017383500029326 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0017383500029326 Rutherford R. B. Virgil's Poetic Ambitions in Eclogue 6 [Elektronische Daten] [R. B. Rutherford] The Eclogues, Virgil's earliest work, are also in some ways his most puzzling, and of these enigmatic poems the sixth is perhaps the most baffling. Since it clearly assumes a considerable knowledge of the contemporary literary scene, much that would have been clear at least to Virgil's fellow poets must remain opaque to us. But it would be over-pessimistic to suppose that we can make nothing of the poem; nor have modern scholars been slow to construct the most varied hypotheses. In this article I shall not be attempting a comprehensive survey of the most recent contributions even in English. Like Michael Winterbottom in his illuminating piece on Eclogues 1 and 9 (in G&R23 [1976], 55-59), I am trying to set down, as simply and concisely as possible, some considerations which, in the light of teaching and reflection, seem to me to contribute to the interpretation and enjoyment of the poem. Copyright © The Classical Association 1989 Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 36/1(1989-04), 42-50 0017-3835 36:1<42 1989 36 GAR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500029326 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500029326 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rutherford R. B. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 36/1(1989-04), 42-50 0017-3835 36:1<42 1989 36 GAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge