Locus amoenus: Pastoral Atmosphere of Virgil’s Eclogues

<p>In the reception history of Virgil’s <i>Eclogues</i>, few concepts are so tightly bound up with the text as that of the <i>locus amoenus</i>—the pleasant place. The </p><p> place of amenity—the landscape or backdrop against which the</p><p>shepherds of the poems bucolicise.</p>