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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fantuzzi, Marco.

Papanghelis, Theodore D.

Series:

Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pastoral poetry, Classical--History and criticism.

Pastoral poetry, Classical.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 654 p.

Other Title:

Companion to Greek and Latin pastoral

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis

The Herdsman in Greek Thought / Kathryn Gutzwiller

Bucolic Singers of the Short Song: Lyric and Elegiac Resonances in Theocritus’ Bucolic Id¡lls / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

How Bucolic are Theocritus’ Bucolic Singers? / Roberto Pretagostini

Magic, Medicine and Eros in the Prologue to Theocritus’ Id. 11 / Christopher A. Faraone

Ptolemaic Pastoral / Susan A. Stephens

Is There Urban Pastoral? The Case of Theocritus’ Id. 15 / Nita Krevans

Epigram at the Margins of Pastoral / Alexander Sens

The Idea of Bucolic in the Imitators of Theocritus, Third–1st Century Bc / Hans Bernsdorff

Continuity and Change in Greek Bucolic Between Theocritus and Virgil / Joseph D. Reed

Theocritus’ Constructive Interpreters, and the Creation of a Bucolic Reader / Marco Fantuzzi

Virgil’S ECL. 1 and the Origins of Pastoral / Richard Hunter

Cultural and Historical Narratives in Virgil’S Eclogues and Lucretius / Philip Hardie

Panegyric in Virgil’S Bucolics / Ruurd R. Nauta

Time and Textuality in the Book of the Eclogues / Brian W. Breed

Friends, Foes, Frames and Fragments: Textuality in Virgil’S Eclogues / Theodore D. Papanghelis

Music for Monsters: Ovid’S Metamorphoses, Bucolic Evolution, and Bucolic Criticism / Alessandro Barchiesi

A Dream Shattered? Pastoral Anxieties in Senecan Drama / Alessandro Schiesaro

Latin Pastoral after Virgil / Roland Mayer

Bucolic Tradition and Poetic Programme in Calpurnius Siculus / Enrico Magnelli

The Pastoral Novel and the Bucolic Tradition / Massimo Di Marco

Virgil, Longus, and the Pipes of Pan / Thomas K. Hubbard

The Drama of Pastoral in Nonnus and Colluthus / Byron Harries

The Pastoral in Byzantium / Joan B. Burton

Bibliography / Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis

General Index / Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis

Index of Passages Discussed / Marco Fantuzzi and Theodore Papanghelis.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-613) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39688-5

9786611396886

90-474-0853-5

OCLC:

235927892

Publisher Number:

9789004147959