Parthenope : the interplay of ideas in Vergilian bucolic /

Parthenope : the interplay of ideas in Vergilian bucolic /

This study of the Eclogues focuses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ( eudaimonia )-ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of émigré Epicurean teachers and their Roman pupils located...

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Main Author: Davis, Gregson.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 346.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Virgil. > Bucolica.

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Call Number: PA6804.B7 D38 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Prelude: The Poet as Thinker
  • Framing a Dialogue on Vicissitude: The Interplay of Ideas in Ecl. 1
  • Fracta cacumina: The Consolation of Poetry and Its Limitations(Ecl. 9)
  • Vicissitude Writ Large: The Ontology of the Golden Age (Ecl. 4)
  • Coping with Death: The Interplay of Lament and Consolation in Ecl. 5
  • Coping with Erotic Adversity: Carmen et Amor (Ecl. 2 and 8)
  • Erotic Vicissitude Writ Large (Ecl. 6)
  • "Ecquis erit modus?": The Vergilian Critique of Elegiac amor (Ecl. 10)
  • Postlude: dulcis Parthenope
  • Works Cited
  • Index.