Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral
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Charles Segal
and Charles Segal
About this book
Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.
Originally published in 1981.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry
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1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus’ First Idyll
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2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23)
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3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48
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4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2)
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5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll
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6. Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll and Lycidas
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7. Simichidas’ Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44
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8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls
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9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus’ Bucolic Poetry
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10. Virgil’s Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue
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11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil’s Third and Fourth Eclogues
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12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9
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13. Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil
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14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26)
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15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus
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Index
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