Poetry and myth in ancient pastoral : essays on Theocritus and Virgil /
Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print book...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1981] |
| Series: | Princeton series of collected essays.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry
- 1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus' First Idyll
- 2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23)
- 3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48
- 4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2)
- 5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll
- 6. Theocritus' Seventh Idyll and Lycidas
- 7. Simichidas' Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44
- 8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus' Bucolic Idylls
- 9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus' Bucolic Poetry
- 10. Virgil's Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue
- 11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil's Third and Fourth Eclogues
- 12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9
- 13. Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil
- 14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26)
- 15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus
- Index