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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Contents IX
5. List of Abbreviations XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: ‘Pastoral’ Encounters
8. 1 Founding Pastoral in the Metamorphoses: The Creation of the Syrinx 47
9. 2 Non est tibia tanti: Apollo vs Marsyas and Pan 61
10. 3 Mercury and Battus 75
11. Part II: Female Voice, Pastoral, and Epic
12. 4 Pierides and Muses 85
13. 5 Arethusa 98
14. 6 Galatea 120
15. Part III: Pastoralised Laments
16. 7 Narcissus’ Lament for Narcissus: Grieving within Genres 139
17. 8 Cry me a River: The Lament for Marsyas 152
18. 9 Metas imitata cupressus (Met. 10.106): Generic Borders of Grief in the Cyparissus Story 158
19. 10 The Lament for Orpheus: Transforming the Virgilian Mourner into an Ovidian Hero 165
20. 11 Semper, Adoni, mei, repetitaque mortis imago (10.726): Ovid’s Venus and Bion’s Lament for Adonis 174
21. Part IV: Surgamus: solet esse grauis cantantibus umbra: Pastoral Ascent in the Metamorphoses
22. 12 Orpheus in siluis: Ovid’s Orpheus, the Eclogues, and the Georgics 187
23. 13 Vertumnus and Pomona 201
24. 14 Talia nequiquam questus (nam cuncta uidebam) surgit: Generic Rise and the End of Pastoral Performances 211
25. Part V: Pastoral, Golden Age, and the Metamorphoses
26. 15 Golden Age and Pastoral in Metamorphoses 1 227
27. 16 Pythagoras’ Speech: Can the Golden Age Be Revived? 243
28. 17 New Beginnings (?): Midas and the Perversion of the Golden Age 256
29. 18 Conclusion 271
30. Bibliography 275
31. General Index 295