Segal Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral

Essays on Theocritus and Virgil
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5689-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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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Autoren/Hrsg.

Segal, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Abbreviations, pg. xi
Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry, pg. 1
1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus’ First Idyll, pg. 25
2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23), pg. 47
3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48, pg. 66
4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2), pg. 73
5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll, pg. 85
6. Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll and Lycidas, pg. 110
7. Simichidas’ Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44, pg. 167
8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls, pg. 176
9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus’ Bucolic Poetry, pg. 210
10. Virgil’s Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue, pg. 235
11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil’s Third and Fourth Eclogues, pg. 265
12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9, pg. 271
13. Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil, pg. 301
14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26), pg. 330
15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus, pg. 336
Index, pg. 341