Pastoral and Allegory: A Re-reading of the Bucolics of Virgil [Eclogues]

Name: Pastoral and Allegory: A Re-reading of the Bucolics of Virgil [Eclogues]
Author: Phillmore, J.S.

Phillmore, J.S.

Language: English

Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925

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Wrappers and pages creased, minor tears to wrapper edges. 1925 Soft Cover. 32 pp. The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil introduced political clamor largely absent from Theocritus' poems, called idylls ("little scenes" or "vignettes"), even though erotic turbulence disturbs the "idyllic" landscapes of Theocritus. Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue ("selection", "extract"), populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. Performed with great success on the Roman stage, they feature a mix of visionary politics and eroticism that made Virgil a celebrity in his own lifetime. Like all of Virgil's works, the Eclogues are composed in dactylic hexameter.…

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Title: Pastoral and Allegory: A Re-reading of the Bucolics of Virgil [Eclogues]
Author: Phillmore, J.S.
Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Publication year: 1925
Condition: Very Good
Binding: Soft Cover
Language: English
Item weight: 2 ounces

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