Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral - Charles Segal

Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral

Essays on Theocritus and Virgil

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
362 Seiten
2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-64245-1 (ISBN)
159,95 inkl. MwSt
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 books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton U
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 books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

*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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Princeton Series of Collected Essays
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 822 g
Themenwelt Literatur
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-691-64245-1 / 0691642451
ISBN-13 978-0-691-64245-1 / 9780691642451
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