#bucolics

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CW: nudity

Commisioned art (125usd)

[thisgreatdamnednight]

1920s En Marge des "Bucoliques" — Un berger qui s'appelle Tircis?... C'est sans doute un sobriquet. illustration for La Vie Parisienne by Chéri Hérouard

[leer-reading-lire]

Shelf-Confidence BPC | March | Day 9 | Influenced

The Aeneid by Virgil

[inhalingwords]

I know what Love is. He was born on the rocks Of Tmaros or of Rhodope or else Far in the Garamantian Desert. Love Is not of our blood and he is not of our kind [...] Love taught a mother how to stain her hands With the blood of her children. Tell me, Mother, which Of the two of you was the crueler one? Which one Of the two, was it, Mother, cruel Love, or you?

nunc scio quid sit Amor: nudis in cautibus illum aut Tmaros aut Rhodope aut extremi Garamantes nec generis nostri puerum nec sanguinis edunt. [...] saeuus Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus; crudelis tu quoque, mater. crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille? improbus ille puer; crudelis tu quoque, mater.

— from Virgil’s “Eclogue VIII” (tr. David Ferry)

[tamsoj]

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems, “Bucolics,” 1956

[classicsandschmassics]

Sea Idyll

lay me down to rest

A poem taking pastoral and mythical themes from Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics, including a reference to the seer and god Proteus, himself a shepherd of sorts. 

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Virgil with his bitch ass twink Alexander

His favourite flower is pretensea

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Alexander/Alexis and, of course, th