Pastoral refers to a genre that idealizes the lifestyle of shepherds and rural settings, often for urban consumption. This genre is also known as bucolic, derived from a Greek term for cowherd.
Pastoral literature, art, and music depict the idealized lives of shepherds and rural environments, often for urban audiences. The genre, also known as bucolic, takes its name from the Greek word for cowherd.
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| Back | pastoral lifestyle (see pastoralism) is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences. A pastoral is a work of this genre, also known as bucolic, from the Greek βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd. |
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