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Book SynopsisThe essays in this book offer a new baseline for understanding the effect of Philodemus and Epicureanism on both the thought and poetic practices of Vergil, Horace, and other Augustan writers.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction (David Armstrong)
- I. Early Vergil
- 1. Vergil's Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles (Diskin Clay)
- 2. Philosophy's Harbor (Francesca Longo Auricchio)
- 3. Vergil's Epicureanism in His Early Poems (Régine Chambert)
- II. Eclogues and Georgics
- 4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue (Gregson Davis)
- 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116-148 (W. R. Johnson)
- 6. Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius (Marcello Gigante)
- III. The Aeneid: The Emotions
- 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus' De ira and Vergil's Aeneid (Giovanni Indelli)
- 8. Anger, Philodemus' Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567-589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum (Jeffrey Fish)
- 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil (Frederic M. Schroeder)
- IV. The Aeneid: Piety and the Gods
- 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus (Patricia A. Johnston)
- 11. Vergil's De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid (Dirk Obbink)
- 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid (Michael Wigodsky)
- V. The Aeneid: Aesthetics
- 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus' Aesthetics and Vergil's Artistic Vision (Marilyn B. Skinner)
- 14. Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus (Daniel Delattre)
- VI. Other Augustan Poets
- 15. Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus (David Armstrong)
- 16. Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? (Francis Cairns)
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
