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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Segal, Charles, 1936-2002 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1981]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Theocritus. > Idylls.
Virgil. > Bucolica.
Idylls (Theocritus)
Bucolica (Virgil)
Pastoral poetry, Classical.
Myth in literature.
Country life in literature.
POETRY > General.
Mythe dans la litterature.
Vie rurale dans la litterature.
Poesie pastorale ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Pastoral poetry, Classical > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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