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Book SynopsisCollected 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton U
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry, pg. 1*1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus' First Idyll, pg. 25*2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23), pg. 47*3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48, pg. 66*4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2), pg. 73*5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll, pg. 85*6. Theocritus' Seventh Idyll and Lycidas, pg. 110*7. Simichidas' Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44, pg. 167*8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus' Bucolic Idylls, pg. 176*9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus' Bucolic Poetry, pg. 210*10. Virgil's Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue, pg. 235*11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil's Third and Fourth Eclogues, pg. 265*12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9, pg. 271*13. Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil, pg. 301*14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26), pg. 330*15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus, pg. 336*Index, pg. 341
