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"Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity. "--Bloomsbury Publishing Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity

Ecology in literature. --- Pastoral poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. --- Pastoral poetry, Latin. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Latin pastoral poetry --- Latin poetry

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This study of the Eclogues focuses 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. 'This book is insightful and engaging; amatores of Vergil's Eclogues (scholars, students, or enthusiasts) will find the work accessible and profitable.' Kristi Eastin, California State University, Fresno

Virgil. --- Virgil. Bucolica. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Pastoral poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. - Bucolica

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Diese Edition von Vergils früheren Werken stellt eine Fortsetzung der Aeneis-Augabe dar, deren Zielsetzung und Methoden sie teilt. Die Textedition entsteht - auf Grundlage der neuesten Studien zu diesem Thema - aus sorgfältigen Überlegungen zum Stil des Autors heraus. Die handschriftliche Überlieferung und die Testimonia bis zum 9. Jahrhundert wurden eingehend erforscht und die wichtigsten Ergebnisse in einem ausführlichen, aber klaren kritischen Apparat dargestellt, wo der Leser auch die Auslegung der fraglichen Stellen und alle notwendige Angaben zur Literatur finden kann.

Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Pastoral poetry, Latin. --- Didactic poetry, Latin. --- Country life --- Agriculture --- Latin didactic poetry --- Latin poetry --- Latin pastoral poetry --- Augustan poetry. --- Bucolica. --- Georgica. --- Vergil.

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T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurnius' pastoral corpus in English. It aims to offer an overall picture of Calpurnius’ epigonal and generically transcending poetics and meta-poetics through a thorough comparative analysis of the generic interfaces between the bucolic host genre (as bequeathed to Siculus from Theocritus to Vergil) and various generic modes which operate in Calpurnius’ eclogues, such as epic, panegyric, elegiac, didactic/georgic. The analysis includes themes/motifs, intertexts and allusion, narrative sequences, diction and metre as well as meta-generic/meta-poetic signs, including Calpurnius' redirection and inversion of the Callimachean-neoteric poetological meta-language. The study’s interests also revolve around the ways in which Neronian ideology and imperial politics inform the pastoral narrative and often account for the formalistic change discerned as well as the manner in which Post-Classical diction functions as a targeted, self-conscious linguistic tell-tale of generic evolution. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Roman pastoral and its generic evolution as well as Neronian Literature.

Latin poetry --- Poésie latine --- Calpurnius Siculus, Titus --- Pastoral poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Calpurnius Siculus, Titus. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie latine --- Pastoral poetry. --- Theology in literature. --- Bucolic poetry --- Eclogues --- Idyllic poetry --- Rural poetry --- Country life --- Poetry --- Calpurnius Siculus --- Calpurnius Siculus. --- Neronian politics and ideology. --- pastoral poetry.

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In 1350, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarca decided to form a collection of all his correspondence. The letters deal with multifarious topics, switch between narration and instruction, and the personal and the general, and are addressed to various of his learned friends and contemporaries. They are a treasure trove for the history of ideas. This is the first complete German-language edition of the famous 24 books of the Epistolae familiares ; they have been translated from the Latin by Prof. Berthe Widmer, an acknowledged authority on Petrarch. The translation is accompanied by a

Authors, Italian -- To 1500 -- Correspondence. --- Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Correspondence. --- Pastoral poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern). --- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 -- Correspondence. --- Romance Literatures --- Italian Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Authors, Italian --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Pétrarque --- Petrarch --- Petracco, Francesco --- Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) --- Petrarca, Franciscus, --- Petrarch, --- Petrarch, Francesco, --- Petrarcha, Franciscus, --- Petrark, --- Petrarka, Franchesko, --- Peṭrarḳa, Frants'esḳo, --- Pétrarque, --- Петрарка, Франческо, --- פטררקא, פרנצ׳סקו --- Petrarca, Francesco