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Parthenope : the interplay of ideas in Vergilian bucolic /

This study of the 'Eclogues' focusses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ('eudaimonia') - ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of émigré Epicurean teachers and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Davis, Gregson (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Collection:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 346.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The poet as thinker
  • Framing a dialogue on vicissitude: the interplay of ideas in Ecl. 1
  • Fracta cacumina: the consolation of poetry and its limitations (Ecl. 9)
  • Vicissitude writ large: the ontology of the golden age (Ecl. 4)
  • Coping with death: the interplay of lament and consolation in Ecl. 5
  • Coping with erotic adversity: carmen et amor (Ecl. 2 & 8)
  • Erotic adversity writ large: Ecl. 6
  • "Ecquis erit modus?": the Vergilian critique of elegiac amor (Ecl. 10)
  • Postlude: dulcis parthenope.