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  title info:
    title: Parthenope
    sub title: the interplay of ideas in Vergilian bucolic
  name:
    name part: Davis, Gregson
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Leiden
    place:
      place term: Boston
    publisher: Brill
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 181 pages 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 emigre 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.
  table of contents: Prelude : 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 vicissitude writ large (Ecl. 6) -- "Ecquis erit modus?" : the Vergilian critique of elegiac amor (Ecl. 10) -- Postlude : dulcis Parthenope.
  note: by Gregson Davis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Βιργίλιος
      name part: 70-19
    topic: Βουκολικά
  classification: 871.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 346
  related item:
    name:
      name part: Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 346
  identifier: 9789004233089
  identifier: 9004233083
  identifier: 9789004233256
  identifier: 9004233253
  location:
    physical location: GR-PaULI ΠΑΤΡΑ ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΑ
  record info:
    record content source: GR-PaULI
    record creation date: 141211
    record change date: 20210117205225.0
    record identifier: 10114647