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Song exchange in Roman pastoral /

Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. By examining in detail the evolution of a wide variety of literary, linguistic, stylistic, and metrical features, the present book focuses on how politics, panegyrics, elegy, heroic, and didactic poetry f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Karakasis, Evangelos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011.
Colección:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Corydon vs. Thyrsis in the Seventh Eclogue: Why Not a Draw?
  • Generic Issues in Vergilian Pastoral Again: The Third Eclogue
  • The Poetics of Recusatio: The Eighth Eclogue
  • Reviving Pastoral: Vergil and his Fifth Bucolic
  • Memory Destroyed: A Reading of the Ninth Eclogue
  • Pastoral Hybridism: Poetics of Meta-language in Calpurnius Siculus' Amoebaean Songs
  • Calp. 2
  • Pastoral Backgrounds
  • 'Unpastoral' Foregrounds: The Fourth Calpurnian Eclogue
  • Epic Excellence in Pastoral: A Reading of the First Einsiedeln Eclogue
  • Elegiac vs. Pastoral Again: Reading the Second Eclogue of Nemesianus'
  • The Rematch: Reading Nemesianus' Fourth Eclogue
  • Bibliography
  • General Index.