Parthenope the interplay of ideas in Vergilian bucolic
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 th...
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
2012
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| Series: | Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 346
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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.
