Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral: Essays on Theocritus and Virgil

✍ Scribed by Charles Segal

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 360
Series: Princeton Series of Collected Essays; 593
Edition: Course Book
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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✦ Table of Contents

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

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