Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Early Vergil
7. 1.Vergil’s Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus’ Letter to Pythocles 25
8. 2. Philosophy’s Harbor 37
9. 3.Vergil’s Epicureanism in His Early Poems 43
10. II. Eclogues and Georgics
11. 4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil’s First Eclogue 63
12. 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116–148 75
13. 6.Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius 85
14. III. The Aeneid: The emotions
15. 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus’ De ira and Vergil’s Aeneid 103
16. 8. Anger, Philodemus’ Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567–589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum 111
17. 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil 139
18. IV. The Aeneid: piety and the gods
19. 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus 159
20. 11.Vergil’s De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid 175
21. 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid 211
22. V. the Aeneid: aesthetics
23. 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus’ Aesthetics and Vergil’s Artistic Vision 231
24. 14.Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus 245
25. VI. Other Augustan Poets
26. 15. Horace’s Epistles 1 and Philodemus 267
27. 16.Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? 299
28. Bibliography 323
29. Contributors 343
30. General Index 347
31. Index Locorum 357