Politics in Arcadia 2. Cosmic Consolation

In Eclogues, Virgil continued an earlier tradition of pastoral poetry.

Those earlier works depicted an idyllic rural life, with shepherds

singing songs about nature and love. Virgil, though, injected

contemporary politics into his pastoral poems by depicting the

dispossession of local shepherds to open up farmland for retiring

soldiers. Why do you think Virgil might have incorporated politics

into his poetry? What does this political dimension add to the genre

of pastoral literature? 2. What is Lady Philosophy’s vision of the

cosmos? Why does this vision comfort Boethius?

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