Um repasto na Arcádia: as Bucólicas de Virgílio

Abstract

In the ten compositions that comprised the Eclogues, the rural landscape send-in always for an evasion space, not only for the idealized land of Pan, paradigm of the nature-shelter, but also for the campestral universe inspired in the reality (Cisalpine Gaul; Sicily). By accepting that in these spaces, since we can found, in a greater or a minor degree, a coherent organization of the represented world, established either by the conventions of the generic code, either by the author’s proper construction of nature, it is our aim to analyse the articulation between the landscape and foods of lyric pastoral. The connection food-landscape will allow us to reflect, among others, about urban space and rural space, the civilized and the uncivilized, and, in parallel, will permit us to define a canon of food decurrent of literary, cultural and ideological implications.