person
Menalcas
A shepherd-singer recurring through the book: rival in Eclogue 3, singer of Daphnis's apotheosis in Eclogue 5, and the poet-figure whose songs 'saved the land' in Eclogue 9.
Reading notes
- The Eclogues §2.15 Menalcas
A shepherd-singer recurring through the book: rival in Eclogue 3, singer of Daphnis's apotheosis in Eclogue 5, and the poet-figure whose songs 'saved the land' in Eclogue 9.