Vergil's Eclogues / edited by Katharina Volk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Volk, Katharina, 1969-

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil. Bucolica.

Virgil.

Pastoral poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Pastoral poetry, Latin.

Country life in literature.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

293 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Admired for its artistry and vision of the human condition, Vergil's book of Eclogues has had a profound influence on the genre of European pastoral and has inspired a significant body of scholarship, characterized not infrequently by controversy over Vergil's meaning and message. This volume collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues, written between 1975 and 1999 by leading scholars from the UK, the USA, Germany, and Italy, and is meant as an invitation to (re)discover Vergil's earliest poems through recent developments in Vergilian criticism. The contributions treat general issues that the work raises (Ernst A. Schmidt discusses the nature of the Eclogues' 'Arcadia'; R. G. M. Nisbet and Lorenz Rumpf consider Vergil's bucolic language; and Seamus Heaney explores the continuing relevance of the pastoral mode in modern times) as well as individual poems (there are specific discussions of Eclogues 1-3 by Thomas K. Hubbard, 1 by Christine G. Perkell, 3 by John Henderson, 4 by R. G. M. Nisbet, 6 by David O. Ross, Jr., and 10 by Gian Biagio Conte). As an introduction to contemporary scholarship on the Eclogues, the book will be helpful to students who are encountering the poems for the first time, while also serving as a reference work for more seasoned scholars.

Contents:

Scholarly approaches the Eclogues since the 1970s / Katharina Volk

Arcadia : modern Occident and classical antiquity / Ernst A. Schmidt

The style of Virgil's Eclogues / R.G.M. Nisbet / Bucolic nomina in Virgil and Theocritus : on the poetic technique of Virgil's Eclogues / Lorenz Rumpf

Allusive artistry and Vergil's revisionary program : Eclogues 13 79 / Thomas K. Hubbard

On Eclogue 1.7983 / Christine G. Perkell

Virgil's third Eclogue : how do you keep an idiot in suspense? / John Henderson

Virgil's fourth Eclogue : Easterners and Westerners / R.G.M. Nisbet

The sixth Eclogue : Virgil's poetic genealogy / David O. Ross, Jr.

An interpretation of the tenth Eclogue / Gian Biagio Conte

Eclogues in extremis : on the staying power of pastoral / Seamus Heaney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-284) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9780199202935

0199202931

9780199202942

019920294X

OCLC:

213358125

Publisher Number:

99942181646