Vergil's Eclogues
A collection of ten classic essays on Vergil's Eclogues, written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written introduction. - ;This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues written between 1970 and 1999 by …
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- Full title :Vergil's Eclogues / edited by Katharina Volk.
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A collection of ten classic essays on Vergil's Eclogues, written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written introduction. - ;This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from several different countries. The contributions are representative of recent dev.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (293 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0191547859, 9780191547850
- oclc:ocn680432222
- LC Classification:PA6804.B7
- Dewey Decimal:872/.01
Table of Contents
Introduction: scholarly approaches to 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 1-3 / Thomas K. Hubbard -- On Eclogue 1.79-83 / 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.
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