# Alexis — The Eclogues character guide

> Alexis in The Eclogues by Virgil.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0001-pastoral-ii-alexis

## Snapshot

A beautiful boy whose name Corydon cannot stop singing, loved from a distance and never seen answering the shepherd's flute.

## Who they are

Alexis is the absent center of Corydon's song, a young master whose beauty makes the shepherd rehearse baskets of lilies, baskets of narcissus, and every rustic gift he can imagine. He never speaks, never arrives, and that silence is the point: desire in the Eclogues often addresses itself to someone who is not listening. His indifference turns Corydon's pastoral from a landscape of plenty into a confession of insufficiency.

## Relationships

### [Corydon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eclogues_se/characters/corydon)

_romantic_

Corydon is hopelessly in love with the beautiful youth Alexis, who remains indifferent and unresponsive to his advances.

## In the story

### [Pastoral II: Alexis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eclogues_se/chapters/pastoral-ii-alexis)

The beautiful youth who is the object of Corydon's unrequited love.

### [Pastoral VII: Meliboeus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_eclogues_se/chapters/pastoral-vii-meliboeus)

Referenced by Corydon as a beloved whose absence causes nature to wither.

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