Vergils hyrdedigte – Bucolica – hører ikke blot til det mest gådefulde, der er overleveret fra den romerske oldtid, men også det mest kunstfærdige. Sven Lindahl læser dem i forhold til den politiske situation, de er digtet i, og påviser en subtil "arkitektonisk struktur" i digtsamlingen. Kort efter at den unge Vergil havde digtet sine hyrdedigte, skabte hans ven Horats sine Epoder, og Lindahl ser i disse digte en underfundig dialog med Vergils værk.

Sven Lindahl, lic.phil., er ekstern lektor på Syddansk Universitet, Odense.

English
Vergil's pastoral poems - Bucolica - are not only some of the most prodigious from the Roman Antiquity to have survived, they are also the most elaborate. In this book Sven Lindahl interprets them in relation to the political situation of their context and points out a subtle 'architectural structure' in the collection. Shortly after young Vergil had written his pastorals, his friend Horace wrote his Epodes and in these poems, Lindahl sees a cunning dialogue with Vergil's work.

Sven Lindahl, PhD, is external lecturer at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.