Corydon (Greek Κορύδων Korúdōn , probably related to κόρυδος kórudos "lark") is a stock name for a herdsman in ancient Greek pastoral poems and fables , and in much later European literature.
31-666: Corydon may refer to: Literature [ edit ] Corydon (character) , a stock name for a shepherd in pastorals Corydon (book) , an early 20th-century book by André Gide People [ edit ] Bent Corydon (born 1942), American author and journalist Bjarne Corydon (born 1973), Danish former politician and Finance Minister Corydon Beckwith (1823–1890), American jurist and lawyer Corydon Bell (1894–1980), American author of children's books Corydon Partlow Brown (1848–1891), Canadian politician Corydon M. Wassell (1884–1958), U.S. Navy physician and recipient of
62-409: A possible authorship by Richard Barnfield , whose first published work, The Affectionate Shepherd , though dealing with the unrequited love of Daphnis for Ganymede , was in fact, as Barnfield stated later, an expansion of Virgil's second Eclogue which dealt with the love of Corydon for Alexis. Nicholas Breton 's pastoral poem Phyllis and Corydon is written from the point of view of Corydon and
93-465: A refrain after each one. In one song the singer complains that his girlfriend is marrying another man; in the second a woman performs a magic spell to get her lover back. Young Lycidas meets old Moeris on his way to town and learns that Moeris's master, the poet Menalcas, has been evicted from his small farm and nearly killed. They proceed to recall snatches of Menalcas's poetry, two translated from Theocritus and two relating to contemporary events. Lycidas
124-426: A second opening at the beginning of eclogue 6. The average length of each eclogue is 83 lines, and long and short poems alternate. Thus the 3rd eclogue in each half is the longest, while the 2nd and 4th are the shortest: Variety is also achieved by alternating dialogue eclogues (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) with monologues (2, 4, 6, 8, 10). Some scholars have also observed numerical coincidences, when each eclogue in poems 1–9
155-440: A singing competition. Menalcas accepts the challenge, offering some decorated cups as a prize, but Damoetas insists that the prize must be a calf, which is more valuable. A neighbour Palaemon agrees to judge the contest. The second half of the poem is the contest itself, ending with Palaemon pronouncing it a tie. The eclogue is mostly based on Theocritus's Idyll 5, but with elements added from other idylls. Eclogue 4 , also called
186-807: A single species, the dusky broadbill Battle of Corydon , in the American Civil War See also [ edit ] Croydon (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Corydon . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corydon&oldid=1184768416 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
217-442: A triadic pattern. The following scheme comes from Steenkamp (2011): The tenth eclogue stands alone, summing up the whole collection. Numerous verbal echoes between the corresponding poems in each half reinforce the symmetry: for example, the phrase "Plant pears, Daphnis" in 9.50 echoes "Plant pears, Meliboeus" in 1.73. Eclogue 10 has verbal echoes with all the earlier poems. Thomas K. Hubbard (1998) has noted, "The first half of
248-584: Is a fundamental interest of the shepherds in classical pastoral elegies, including the speaker in Milton 's " Lycidas ". This eclogue tells the story of how two boys, Chromis and Mnasyllos, and a Naiad persuaded Silenus to sing to them, and how he sang to them of the world's beginning, the Flood, the Golden Age, Prometheus, Hylas , Pasiphaë , Atalanta and Phaëthon 's sisters; after which he described how
279-592: Is a goatherd who loves a boy called Alexis. Corydon is the name of a character that features heavily in the Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus . Some scholars believe that this Corydon represents Calpurnius himself, or at least his "poetic voice". Corydon is mentioned in Edmund Spenser 's The Faerie Queen as a shepherd in Book VI, Canto X. In this section he is portrayed as a coward who fails to come to
310-563: Is added to its pair: eclogues 2 + 8 = 3 + 7 = 181 lines, while eclogues 1 + 9 = 4 + 6 = 150/149 lines; 2 + 10 also = 150 lines. However, the significance of these findings is not clear. Similar numerical phenomena have been found in other authors. For example, in Tibullus book 2, poems 1 + 6 = 2 + 5 = 3 + 4 = 144 lines. A dialogue between Tityrus and Meliboeus. In the turmoil of the era Meliboeus has been forced off his land and faces an uncertain future. Tityrus recounts his journey to Rome and
341-434: Is anxious for a singing-match, while admitting that he is no match for two contemporary Roman poets whom he mentions by name, but Moeris pleads for forgetfulness and loss of voice. They walk on towards the city, postponing the competition until Menalcas arrives. In Eclogue 10, Virgil replaces Theocritus' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis , with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend,
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#1732766298799372-586: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Corydon (character) Corydon features in the fourth Idyll of the Syracusan poet Theocritus (c. 300 – c. 250 BC), where he is found herding some cows belonging to a certain Aegon. The name was used by the Latin poets Siculus and, more significantly, Virgil . In the second of Virgil's Eclogues , Corydon
403-498: Is named after the shepherd of that song. Corydon and Thyrsis are a pair of shepherds in Edna St. Vincent Millay 's 1920 play Aria da Capo . [1] Corydon is the title of a 1924 book by André Gide in the form of Socratic dialogues arguing for the naturalness and morality of homosexuality. The name is again used for a shepherd boy in an English children's fantasy trilogy by Tobias Druitt . [2] : This article about
434-440: Is persuaded, and sings a song he has made mourning the death of the fabled herdsman Daphnis. After praising the song, Menalcas responds by singing a song of equal length describing the reception of Daphnis in heaven as a god. Mopsus praises Menalcas in turn, and the two exchange gifts. Eclogue 5 articulates another significant pastoral theme, the shepherd-poet's concern with achieving worldly fame through poetry. Ensuring poetic fame
465-458: Is that it refers to the predicted child of the sister of Octavian , Octavia the Younger , who had married Mark Antony in 40 BC. The poem is dated to 40 BC by the reference to the consulship of Gaius Asinius Pollio , Virgil's patron at the time, to whom the eclogue is addressed. In later years, it was often assumed that the boy predicted in the poem was Christ. The connection is first made in
496-581: Is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil . Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus , Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil introduced political clamor largely absent from Theocritus' poems, called idylls ('little scenes' or 'vignettes'), even though erotic turbulence disturbs
527-505: The Aeneid . In the surge of ambition, Virgil also predicts defeating the legendary poet Orpheus and his mother, the epic muse Calliope , as well as Pan , the inventor of the bucolic pipe, even in Pan's homeland of Arcadia , which Virgil will claim as his own at the climax of his book in the tenth eclogue. Identification of the fourth eclogue's child has proved elusive, but one common solution
558-516: The Ancient Greek language is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer topics is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eclogues The Eclogues ( / ˈ ɛ k l ɒ ɡ z / ; Latin : Eclogae [ˈɛklɔɡae̯] , lit. ' selections ' ), also called the Bucolics ,
589-575: The Eurotas . The goatherd Meliboeus, a recurring character, soliloquizing remembers how he happened to be present at a great singing match between Corydon and Thyrsis. He then quotes from memory their actual songs (six rounds of matching quatrains) and recalls that Daphnis as judge declared Corydon the winner. This eclogue is based on pseudo-Theocritus Idyll VIII, though there the quatrains are not in hexameters but in elegiac couplets. Scholars argue about why Thyrsis loses. The reader may feel that despite
620-453: The Muses gave Gallus (a close personal friend of Virgil's) Hesiod 's reed pipe and commissioned him to write a didactic poem; after which he told of Scylla (whom Virgil identifies as both the sea monster and the daughter of Nisos who was transmuted into a seabird) and of Tereus and Philomela , and then we learn that he has in fact been singing a song composed by Apollo on the banks of
651-538: The Oration of Constantine appended to the Life of Constantine by Eusebius of Caesarea (a reading to which Dante makes fleeting reference in his Purgatorio ). Some scholars have also noted similarities between the eclogue's prophetic themes and the words of Isaiah 11:6 : "a little child shall lead". In Eclogue 5, Menalcas, meeting the young goatherd Mopsus, flatters him and begs him to sing one of his songs. Mopsus
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#1732766298799682-486: The "god" he met there who answered his plea and allowed him to remain on his land. He offers to let Meliboeus spend the night with him. This text has been viewed as reflecting the infamous land-confiscations after the return of Mark Antony and Octavian's joint forces from the Battle of Philippi of 42 BCE, in which Brutus and Cassius (the orchestrators of Caesar 's assassination in 44 BCE) were defeated. A monologue by
713-406: The "idyllic" landscapes of Theocritus. Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue , from the Greek ἐκλογή ('selection', 'extract'). The poems are populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. Performed with great success on
744-500: The Messianic Eclogue, imagines a golden age ushered in by the birth of a boy heralded as "great increase of Jove" ( magnum Iovis incrementum ). The poet makes this notional scion of Jove the occasion to predict his own metabasis up the scale in epos , rising from the humble bucolic to the lofty range of the heroic , potentially rivaling Homer : he thus signals his own ambition to make Roman epic that will culminate in
775-602: The Navy Cross Places in the United States [ edit ] Corydon, Indiana , a town Corydon Historic District Corydon, Iowa , a city Corydon, Kentucky , a home rule-class city Corydon Township (disambiguation) Other uses [ edit ] Corydon Avenue, a segment of Winnipeg Route 95 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Corydon (bird) , a genus of broadbill containing
806-470: The Roman stage, they feature a mix of visionary politics and eroticism that made Virgil a celebrity in his own lifetime. Like all of Virgil's works, the Eclogues are composed in dactylic hexameters . Several scholars have attempted to identify the organizational principles underpinning the construction of the book. Most commonly the structure has been seen to be symmetrical, turning around eclogue 5, with
837-461: The aid of Pastorell when she is being pursued by a tiger. The name appears in poem number 17 ("My flocks feed not, my ewes breed not") of The Passionate Pilgrim , an anthology of poetry first published in 1599 and attributed on the title page of the collection to Shakespeare . This poem appeared the following year in another collection, England's Helicon , where it was attributed to "Ignoto" ( Latin for "Unknown"). Circumstantial evidence points to
868-400: The book has often been seen as a positive construction of a pastoral vision, whilst the second half dramatizes progressive alienation from that vision, as each poem of the first half is taken up and responded to in reverse order." However, the arrangement of the eclogues into three groups of three does not prevent the collection also being seen as divided at the same time into two halves, with
899-496: The herdsman Corydon bemoaning his unrequited love for the handsome boy Alexis (the boss's darling) in the height of summer. The poem is adapted from the eleventh Idyll of Theocritus, in which the Cyclops Polyphemus laments the cruelty of the sea-nymph Galatea. Menalcas comes across a herdsman Damoetas, who is herding some animals on behalf of a friend. The two men exchange insults and then Damoetas challenges Menalcas to
930-441: The very close parallelism of his quatrains with Corydon's, they are less musical and sometimes cruder in content. This eclogue is also known as Pharmaceutria ("Sorceress"). The poet reports the contrasting songs of two herdsmen whose music is as powerful as that of Orpheus. Both songs are dramatic (the character in the first being a man and in the second a woman), both have almost the same pattern of three-to-five-line stanzas, with
961-517: Was also printed in England's Helicon. John Wilbye's The Second Set of Madrigales for 3-6 Voices , 1598, contains the song Stay, Corydon, thou swain about Corydon's unrequited love for a nymph. Corydon and Thyrsis appear in Henry Needler's poem, "A Pastoral", first published in 1724. Corydon is the name of a shepherd in a song titled " Pastoral Elegy ". The town of Corydon, Indiana