Before Queen: Vergil and the Musical Tradition of Sampling Popular Song
Naomi Kaloudis
McGill University

Just as contemporary artists sample music to invest their songs with cultural meaning, Vergil sampled Theocritus. Naomi Kaloudis suggests to better teach the complexities of Vergil’s Eclogues to undergraduate audiences, students should look more closely at the rhythms and lyrics of music popular.

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