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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Segal, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Collected Essays ; 593
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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