Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry 1
6. 1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus’ First Idyll 25
7. 2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23) 47
8. 3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48 66
9. 4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2) 73
10. 5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll 85
11. 6. Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll and Lycidas 110
12. 7. Simichidas’ Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44 167
13. 8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls 176
14. 9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus’ Bucolic Poetry 210
15. 10. Virgil’s Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue 235
16. 11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil’s Third and Fourth Eclogues 265
17. 12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9 271
18. 13. Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil 301
19. 14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26) 330
20. 15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus 336
21. Index 341