Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral: Essays on Theocritus and Virgil (Princeton Series of Collected Essays) - Hardcover

Segal, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691642451 ISBN 13: 9780691642451

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.

Originally published in 1981.

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About the Author

Charles Segal (1936 2002) taught classics at the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Princeton University, and Harvard University, where he was Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics. He also held held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Brandeis University, the University of Melbourne, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and the Ecole Normale Superieure. Among his many books are Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text and Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the "Odyssey", both published by Cornell University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691642451
• ISBN 13: 9780691642451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 362