Vergil's Eclogues
By: edited by Katharina Volk.
Contributors: Volk, Katharina, 1969-
Series: Oxford readings in classical studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780199202942; 9780199202935
Subjects: Virgil; Pastoral poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Country life in literature; Rome -- In literature
Description: "This volume collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues, written between 1975 and 1999 by leading scholars from the UK, the USA, Germany, and Italy, and is meant as an invitation to (re)discover Vergil's earliest poems through recent developments in Vergilian criticism. The contributions treat general issues that the work raises (Ernst A. Schmidt discusses the nature of the Eclogues' 'Arcadia'; R.G.M. Nisbet and Lorenz Rumpf consider Vergil's bucolic language; and Seamus Heaney explores the continuing relevance of the pastoral mode in modern times) as well as individual poems (there are specific discussions of Eclogues 1-3 by Thomas K. Hubbard, 1 by Christine G. Perkell, 3 by John Henderson, 4 by R.G.M. Nisbet, 6 by David O. Ross, Jr., and 10 by Gian Biagio Conte).

As an introduction to contemporary scholarship on the Eclogues, the book will be helpful to students who are encountering the poems for the first time, while also serving as a reference work for more seasoned scholars."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scholarly approaches the Eclogues since the 1970s / Katharina Volk; title: Arcadia : modern Occident and classical antiquity / Ernst A. Schmidt; title: The style of Virgil's Eclogues / R.G.M. Nisbet / Bucolic nomina in Virgil and Theocritus : on the poetic technique of Virgil's Eclogues / Lorenz Rumpf; title: Allusive artistry and Vergil's revisionary program :  Eclogues 13 79 / Thomas K. Hubbard; title: On Eclogue 1.7983 / Christine G. Perkell; title: Virgil's third Eclogue : how do you keep an idiot in suspense? / John Henderson; title: Virgil's fourth Eclogue : Easterners and Westerners / R.G.M. Nisbet; title: The sixth Eclogue : Virgil's poetic genealogy / David O. Ross, Jr.; title: An interpretation of the tenth Eclogue / Gian Biagio Conte; title: Eclogues in extremis : on the staying power of pastoral  / Seamus Heaney.