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How many poems are in Virgil’s Eclogues?

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Ancient Roman mosaic showing the poet Virgil seated and writing, flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, displayed in a decorative border. — Virgil Virgil (centre) holding a scroll with a quotation from the *Aeneid* and flanked by the muses Clio and Melpomene, mosaic, early 3rd century ce; in the Bardo National Museum, Tunis, Tunisia.

Virgil’s Eclogues (also known as the Bucolics) consists of 10 pastoral poems. Composed between 42 and 37 BCE, this collection was the poet's earliest certain work and played a significant role in establishing the genre of the eclogue.12