Reading notes

• The Eclogues §6.70 Ascra

  The Boeotian village of Hesiod; the 'old man of Ascra' whose reeds pass to Gallus in Eclogue 6.

• The Georgics §2.176 Ascraean

  Of Ascra, Hesiod's village: Virgil's 'Ascraean song' is Hesiodic farm-poetry sung through Roman towns.