Virgil

This set collects eighty-four articles on Virgil published in the last hundred years, many of which remain the starting-points for modern scholarship and criticism. The set gathers together articles from a wide range of journals in English, as well as from the German and Italian traditions of Virgil studies, some in new translations. The selections are arranged under the following headings: general articles, including a discussion of the influence of Lucretius' poetry on the Virgilian corpus; the "Eclogues" , containing critical interpretations of all ten of Virgil's bucolic poems, an exploration of the Greek sources and a discussion of the complex poetic structure of the "Eclogues"; and the "Georgics", incorporating an examination of the agricultural methods detailed in the poem, an exploration of the Augustan and Roman themes implicit in the poem and critical interpretations of all four books. The book also looks at the "Aeneid", and features a discussion of the similarities between Virgil's Aeneas and Homer's Achilles, an exploration of the epic genre and crucial recurring themes in the "Aeneid", an examination of Virgilian similes and a study of the Homeric allusions of the poem. In volumes II-IV general studies on the works are followed by items on the individual poems and books.

ISBN 0415152453   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780415152457 (What's this?)   Pages 1744 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Volumes 4 Hardbacks Imprint Routledge   Weight (grammes) 2782 Format Hardback   Published in London Publication date 13 May 1999   Series title Critical Assessments of Classical Authors S. Non-book description Set   Height (mm) 234 Writer of introduction Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge)   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 98041393   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 873.01

General Articles 1. Die Einheit des virgilischen Lebenswerkses F. Klinger 2. Polemical allisions to the De rerum natura of Lucretius in the works of Vergil B. Farrington 3. Virgil's ecphrastic centerpieces R.F. Thomas Eclogues 4. Virgil and the evictions L.P. Wilkinson 5. Arcadia: the discovery of a spiritual landscape B. Snell 6. Virgil and the elegiac sensibility E.J. Kenney 7. Si numquam fallit imago: riflessioni sulle Bucoliche e l'Epicureismo A. Traina 8. Architecture. Theories about Virgil's Eclogues N.Rudd 9. Virgil's pastoral programme: Theocritus, Callimachus and Eclogue 1 J.R.G. Wright 10. Tamen cantabitis, Arcades - exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9 C.P. Segal 11. Vergil's second Eclogue: its theme and relation to the Eclogue book G.K. Galinsky 12. Vergil's caelatum opus: an interpretation of the third Eclogue C.P. Segal 13. Virgil's fourth Eclogue: easterners and westerners R.G.M. Nisbet 14. Vergil's fourth Eclogue I.M. Le M. DuQuesnay 15. Virgil's fifth Eclogue I.M. Le M. DuQuesnay 16. Cynthius W. Clausen 17. non iniussa cano: Virgil's sixth Eclogue J.P. Elder 18. Imitation in the tenth Eclogue D.A. Kidd 19. An Interpretation of the tenth Eclogue G.A. Conte Georgics 20. Agriculture and the Georgics M.S. Spurr 21. Esiodo nella cultura e nella poesia di Virgilio A. La Penna 22. Man and beast in Lucretius and the Georgics M.R. Gale 23. Virgil's Georgics and the art of reference R.F. Thomas 24. Virgil and the Euphrates R.S. Scodel 25. Die Komposition von Vergils Georgiks E. Burck 26. A new study of the Georgics B. Otis 27. Das Prooemium von Vergils Georgica G. Wissowa 28. Labor Improbus R. Jenkyns 29. Silicet et tempus uenit ... Virgil, Georgics 1.463-514 R.O.A.M. Lyne 30. Uber das Lob des Landlebens in Virgils Georgica F. Klingner 31. Virgil's marble temple: Georgics III. 10-39 D.L. Drew 32. Callimachus, the Victoria Berenices, and Roman Poetry R.F. Thomas 33. Der Bienenstaat in Vergils Georgica H. Dahlmann 34. The fourth Georgic, Virgil and Rome J. Griffin 35. Gallus, the Bucolics, and the ending of the fourth Georgic R. Coleman 36. Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the laudes Galli H. Jacobson 37. Sacrifice, society and Vergil's ox-born bees T. N. Habinek 38. The "sacrifice at the end of the Georgics, Aristaeus, and Vergilian closure R.F. Thomas Aeneid 39. Virgil's epic techniques: Heinze ninety years on P.R. Hardie 40. Descent into Hell. Reading and Ambiguity, or Virgil and the critics C. Martind

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