Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans /

Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans / / ed. by David Armstrong, Marilyn B. Skinner, Patricia A. Johnston, Jeffrey Fish.

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The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Armstrong, David,
Cairns, Francis,
Chambert, Régine,
Clay, Diskin,
Davis, Gregson,
Delattre, Daniel,
Fish, Jeffrey,
Gigante, Marcello,
Indelli, Giovanni,
Johnson, W. R.,
Johnston, Patricia A.,
Longo Auricchio, Francesca,
Obbink, Dirk,
Schroeder, Frederic M.,
Skinner, Marilyn B.,
Wigodsky, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Armstrong, David,
Fish, Jeffrey,
Johnston, Patricia A.,
Skinner, Marilyn B.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (375 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Early Vergil
  • 1.Vergil’s Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus’ Letter to Pythocles
  • 2. Philosophy’s Harbor
  • 3.Vergil’s Epicureanism in His Early Poems
  • II. Eclogues and Georgics
  • 4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil’s First Eclogue
  • 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116–148
  • 6.Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius
  • III. The Aeneid: The emotions
  • 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus’ De ira and Vergil’s Aeneid
  • 8. Anger, Philodemus’ Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567–589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum
  • 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil
  • IV. The Aeneid: piety and the gods
  • 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus
  • 11.Vergil’s De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid
  • 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid
  • V. the Aeneid: aesthetics
  • 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus’ Aesthetics and Vergil’s Artistic Vision
  • 14.Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus
  • VI. Other Augustan Poets
  • 15. Horace’s Epistles 1 and Philodemus
  • 16.Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34?
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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