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      «Among the competing ideologies proleptically displayed in the Eclogues are Roman republicanism, the classic statement of the claims of the many to equal consideration; the counter-claim of the privileged few to special treatment on the grounds of special talent: the hegemonic needs of the holders of power for cultural authentication; the responsibility of the intellectual for providing that authentication, in the interests of stability; the value of political or social stability in nurturing the arts; the responsibility of the intellectual for telling the whole truth in the interests of social justice; the intellectual’s claim to personal autonomy» (Patterson A. Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valery. Berkeley, 1987. P. 8).