Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral: Essays on Theocritus and Virgil

Charles Segal; Charles Segal

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Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral

Essays on Theocritus and Virgil

Charles Segal and Charles Segal

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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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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Acknowledgments
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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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Keywords for this book

Poetry; Theocritus; Idyll; Lycidas; Daphnis; Thyrsis (poem); Pastoral; Poetry of Catullus; Strange Meeting (poem); Sentimentalism (literature); Epigram; Literature; Silenus; Verisimilitude (fiction); Melanthius (Odyssey); Homeric Hymns; Virgil; Augustan literature; Superiority (short story); Literary criticism; Aeschylus; Shakespearean tragedy; Eclogue; Chromis (mythology); William Shakespeare; God Knows (novel); Simile; G. (novel); Moschus; Elizabethan literature; Tyrtaeus; Ibid (short story); Irony; Aristophanes; Fiction; Priapus; Mock-heroic; Sentimentality; Euripides; Art for art's sake; Threnody; Lament; Tiresias; Nisus and Euryalus; Euphemism; Iacchus; Pastiche; Pathetic fallacy; The Concubine (novel); Narrative; Apollonius of Rhodes; Homer; Hyperbole; Muse; Aeneid; Castor and Pollux; Apotheosis; Despair (novel); Pholus (mythology); Literary genre; Proverb; Anatomy of Criticism; Death and Life; Polyphemus; Fairy tale; Clymene (mythology); Et in Arcadia ego; Sophocles; Odysseus; Excursus

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral

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About this book

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Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

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Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry

1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus’ First Idyll

2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23)

3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48

4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2)

5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll

6. Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll and Lycidas

7. Simichidas’ Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44

8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls

9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus’ Bucolic Poetry

10. Virgil’s Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue

11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil’s Third and Fourth Eclogues

12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9

13. Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil

14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26)

15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus

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