Actualidad de las Bucólicas y Geórgicas de Virgilio

Abstract

In this paper, the author analyzes the topicality of Virgil”™s work for today”™s reader. He focuses on the Eclogues and the Georgics poems which are the result of a real educational process of the Latin poet. In these masterpieces, Virgil represents the complexities of life in the ideal world of shepherds, and shows that man does not only take advantage of nature and chances, but he also acts and produces. In that same sense, Virgilio reminds us about the human being”™s labor that demands to be in harmony and peace with nature and with our fellows.