"Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, Bucolic Ecology illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the Eclogues find there both a sequence of analogies …
"Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analog…
Annotation
Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. By examining in detail the evolution of a wide variety of literary, linguistic, stylistic, and metrical features, the present book focuses on how politics, panegyrics, elegy, heroic, …
Bucolica
by Conte, Gian Biagio, Ottaviano, Silvia, Virgil, Virgil
fromBibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
Main description: This critical edition of the Latin text of Vergil's Bucolica and Georgica is informed by recent research on the author's style as well as the oldest manuscript versions of his works.
