Brill's companion to Greek and Latin pastoral / / edited by Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fantuzzi, Marco.; Papanghelis, Theodore D.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
• Physical Description: xxvi, 654 p.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary material /; The Herdsman in Greek Thought /; Bucolic Singers of the Short Song: Lyric and Elegiac Resonances in Theocritus’ Bucolic Id¡lls /; How Bucolic are Theocritus’ Bucolic Singers? /; Magic, Medicine and Eros in the Prologue to Theocritus’ Id. 11 /; Ptolemaic Pastoral /; Is There Urban Pastoral? The Case of Theocritus’ Id. 15 /; Epigram at the Margins of Pastoral /; The Idea of Bucolic in the Imitators of Theocritus, Third–1st Century Bc /; Continuity and Change in Greek Bucolic Between Theocritus and Virgil /; Theocritus’ Constructive Interpreters, and the Creation of a Bucolic Reader /; Virgil’S ECL. 1 and the Origins of Pastoral /; Cultural and Historical Narratives in Virgil’S Eclogues and Lucretius /; Panegyric in Virgil’S Bucolics /; Time and Textuality in the Book of the Eclogues /; Friends, Foes, Frames and Fragments: Textuality in Virgil’S Eclogues /; Music for Monsters: Ovid’S Metamorphoses, Bucolic Evolution, and Bucolic Criticism /; A Dream Shattered? Pastoral Anxieties in Senecan Drama /; Latin Pastoral after Virgil /; Bucolic Tradition and Poetic Programme in Calpurnius Siculus /; The Pastoral Novel and the Bucolic Tradition /; Virgil, Longus, and the Pipes of Pan /; The Drama of Pastoral in Nonnus and Colluthus /; The Pastoral in Byzantium /; Bibliography /; General Index /; Index of Passages Discussed /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-613) and index.
• ISBN: 1281396885; 9786611396886; 9047408535
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis.

This volume comprises articles by an international team of twenty-three scholars. The contributions focus on the historical genesis, stylistic and narrative features and evolution of pastoral, both as genre and mode, from Theocritus to the Byzantine period. Special attention has been paid to the idea of the 'invention of a fictionalized tradition', and to pastoral’s thematic and formal relationship with other literary genres. In their totality, the contributions, as well as offering a comprehensive overview of the more or less familiar issues and ideas discussed in connection with pastoral, point to new emphases, trends and insights in current scholarly work in this area. The volume is addressed to a wide range of students and scholars in classics, but much in it will also be of interest to those working in the fields of comparative and modern literatures.