| Description |
1 online resource (x, 181 pages) |
| Series |
Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; volume 346 |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 346.
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| Contents |
The poet as thinker -- Framing a dialogue on vicissitude: the interplay of ideas in Ecl. 1 -- Fracta cacumina: the consolation of poetry and its limitations (Ecl. 9) -- Vicissitude writ large: the ontology of the golden age (Ecl. 4) -- Coping with death: the interplay of lament and consolation in Ecl. 5 -- Coping with erotic adversity: carmen et amor (Ecl. 2 & 8) -- Erotic adversity writ large: Ecl. 6 -- "Ecquis erit modus?": the Vergilian critique of elegiac amor (Ecl. 10) -- Postlude: dulcis parthenope |
| Summary |
880-01 This study of the 'Eclogues' focusses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ('eudaimonia') - ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of émigré Epicurean teachers and their Roman pupils located in the vicinity of Naples ("Parthenope"). The latent "interplay of ideas" implicit in the songs of the various poet-herdsmen centers on differing attitudes to acute misfortune and loss, particularly in the spheres of land dispossession and frustrated erotic desire. In the bucolic dystopia that Vergil constructs for his audience, the singers resort to different means of coping with the vagaries of fortune (tyche). This relatively neglected ethical dimension of the poems in the Bucolic collection receives a systematic treatment that provides a useful complement to the primarily aesthetic and socio-political approaches that have predominated in previous scholarship |
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880-01/(Q This study of the 'Eclogues' focusses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ('eudaimonia') - ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of e⁺ѓmigre⁺ѓ Epicurean teachers and their Roman pupils located in the vicinity of Naples ("Parthenope"). The latent "interplay of ideas" implicit in the songs of the various poet-herdsmen centers on differing attitudes to acute misfortune and loss, particularly in the spheres of land dispossession and frustrated erotic desire. In the bucolic dystopia that Vergil constructs for his audience, the singers resort to different means of coping with the vagaries of fortune (tyche). This relatively neglected ethical dimension of the poems in the Bucolic collection receives a systematic treatment that provides a useful complement to the primarily aesthetic and socio-political approaches that have predominated in previous scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Virgil. Bucolica
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| SUBJECT |
Bucolica (Virgil) fast |
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012020425 |
| ISBN |
9789004233256 |
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9004233253 |
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1283597160 |
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9781283597166 |
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9786613909619 |
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6613909610 |
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