Is humor considered a characteristic of the Eclogues?
I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I think there's quite a lot of
humour in the Eclogues, e.g., in nos. 2, 3, 5, and 6. But then I read them
mainly in English translation and through a haze of English imitation and
parody.
Simon Cauchi
A very hasty WWW-inquiry returned the following:
Joy Connolly, of Stanford, held there in 1999 the following lecture:
The appeal of the Alexandrian goatherd: intertextuality, humor, and
cultural hegemony in Virgil's Eclogues
Perhaps she could tell us more...
But one's own readerly experiences
