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