SOURCE: “Vergil's Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil,” Proceedings: American Philological Association, Vol. 100, 1969, pp. 407-35.
In the essay that follows, Segal analyzes the moral outlook of the poem and asserts that in the Sixth Eclogue Vergil uses the pastoral mode to point out a correlation between disorder in the universe and man's evil nature.
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