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| Author | : Raymond Kania |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2016-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107080851 |
A new, comprehensive study of Virgil's Eclogues that reinterprets an ancient text and genre as imaginative fiction.
| Author | : Raymond Kania |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316538958 |
Many scholars have seen ancient bucolic poetry as a venue for thinking about texts and textuality. This book reassesses Virgil's Eclogues and their genre, arguing that they are better read as fiction - that is, as a work that refers not merely to itself or to other texts but to a world of its own making. This makes for a rich work of art and an object of legitimate aesthetic and imaginative engagement. Increased attention to the fictionality of Virgilian poetry also complicates and enriches the Eclogues' social and political dimensions. The book offers new interpretations of poems like Eclogues 5 and 9, which, according to traditional allegorical readings, concern Julius Caesar and the confiscation of lands under Octavian, respectively. It shows how the Eclogue world stands in a less stable relation to reality; these poems challenge readers at every turn to reimagine the relationship between fiction and the real.
| Author | : Raymond Michael Kania |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781267247315 |
Reading the Eclogues is complicated by the fact that we have the ten poems in the form of a book evidently designed to be read as an integrated whole. The book exhibits signs of formal unity such that a sequential reading is preferable and fruitful. At the same time, efforts to impose order by reading a plot or linear narrative into the collection have proven unsatisfactory. The dissertation argues that the search for the Eclogue Book's unity yields richer understandings of particular poems and a better appreciation of the artistry of the whole--but not the specious satisfaction offered by tidy structural schemes. Furthermore, that tension between order and disorder, and the frustrations to which it may lead readers, is a formal feature of the book that also is reflected in its fictional contents. The characters of the Eclogues are often constrained by external forces and painfully aware of their own limitations; pleasure or happiness exists in the poems despite the absence of complete satisfaction or unfettered efficacy.
| Author | : Virgil |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2011-06-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0812205367 |
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in the time in which they were created.
| Author | : Debbie Felton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2018-04-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 135159057X |
Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and social: how spaces are described by language, what spaces are used for by individuals and communities, and how language, use, and the passage of time invest spaces with meaning. In addition to this ‘spatial’ turn in scholarship, recent years have also seen an ‘emotive’ turn – an increased interest in the study of emotion in literature. Many works on landscape in classical antiquity focus on themes such as the sacred and the pastoral and the emotions such spaces evoke, such as (respectively) feelings of awe or tranquillity in settings both urban and rural. Far less scholarship has been generated by the locus terribilis, the space associated with negative emotions because of the bad things that happen there. In short, the recent ‘emotive’ turn in humanities studies has so far largely neglected several of the more negative emotions, including anxiety, fear, terror, and dread. The papers in this volume focus on those neglected negative emotions, especially dread – and they do so while treating many types of space, including domestic, suburban, rural and virtual, and while covering many genres and authors, including the epic poems of Homer, Greek tragedy, Roman poetry and historiography, medical writing, paradoxography and the short story.
| Author | : Andrea Cucchiarelli |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 2023-01-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0192888773 |
Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore complex elements of poetic, literary, philosophical, and even figurative culture, and to express the drama of civil war and expropriations. In this commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, Andrea Cucchiarelli analyses the Eclogues in depth, establishing comparisons with both Greek and Roman poetic models, with philosophical texts, and with significant later texts from the Roman poetic tradition. The commentary is the first to offer a systematic account of the poem in its historical context, between the end of the Republic and the Age of Augustus: particular attention is also paid to the language of the figurative arts, which for Roman readers constituted an important complement to literary knowledge of myths and stories. The volume offers the reader a reliable and concise interpretation of the text, which is systematically lemmatized and annotated throughout; each eclogue is additionally accompanied by an introductory overview and a detailed bibliography to direct further reading.
| Author | : Edward Kennard Rand |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 1931 |
| Genre | : Literary style |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Virgil |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2010-03-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780812242256 |
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the epic in the time in which it was created.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 2000-11-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0807861545 |
Best remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman authorities threatened to seize his family's land, Vergil's appeal in the form of Eclogue IX won a stay. Eclogue I appears to be a thank-you for that favor. Barbara Hughes Fowler provides scholars and students with a new American verse translation of Vergil's Eclogues. An accomplished translator, Fowler renders the poet's words into an English that is contemporary while remaining close to the spirit of the original. In an introduction to the text, she compares the treatment of the pastoral form by Vergil and Theocritus, illuminating the ways in which Vergil borrowed from and built upon the earlier poet's work, and thereby moved the genre in a new direction.
| Author | : Virgil |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Agriculture |
| ISBN | : 9780192837684 |
The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his Greek model - the Idylls ofTheocritus - he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary events are introduced. The Eclogues display all Virgil's art and charm and are among his most delightful achievements.Between approximately 39 and 29 BC, years of civil strife between Antony, and Octavian, Virgil was engaged upon the Georgics. Part agricultural manual, full of observations of animals and nature, they deal with the farmer's life and give it powerful allegorical meaning. These four books containsome of Virgil's finest descriptive writing and are generally held to be his greatest and most entertaining work, and C. Day Lewis's lyrical translations are classics in their own right.
