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OverviewThis 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 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. 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregson DavisPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 346 Weight: 0.435kg ISBN: 9789004233089ISBN 10: 9004233083 Pages: 182 Publication Date: 27 August 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: English & Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Table of ContentsReviewsThis book is insightful and engaging; amatores of Vergil's Eclogues (scholars, students, or enthusiasts) will find the work accessible and profitable. Kristi Eastin in BMCR, 2013.06.08 Author InformationGregson Davis, Ph.D. (1969), University of California at Berkeley, is Professor of Classics at New York University. His publications on Latin poetry include articles on Catullus, Horace and Ovid, and the monograph Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse (1991). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |