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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788201603321

Autore

Van Sickle John

Titolo

Virgil's Book of bucolics, the ten eclogues translated into English verse : framed by cues for reading aloud and clues for threading texts and themes / / John Van Sickle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-8018-9961-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Virgil

Disciplina

873/.01

Soggetti

Pastoral poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Note to the Reader; A User Guide to 'pastoral,' 'eclogue,' Eclogues, 'bucolic,' and Bucolics; Themes from Troubled Times at Rome; Cues for Drama: Mime Revoicing Roman Mythic Frame; Eclogue 1. Contrary Fates Clash: Citizen- Singer Silenced {break with former Roman frame and vatic voice} // Old Slave Free to Sing {new Roman framing myth and vatic voice}; Eclogue 2. New Roman Myth Frames Restless Song in Love {love spell builds thematic reach}; Eclogue 3. Erotic-Vatic Singing Swells Mythic Frame {'all' filled by Jove}

Eclogue 4. Full Vatic Song {myth frames 'all': bucolic, georgic, civic- heroic, cosmic ranges}Eclogue 5. Vatic Hymns Cap Roman Myth {new bucolic-georgic (Roman) hero: Daphnis}; Eclogue 6. Freed Singer-Slave Put Down {AMOR // ROMA: cosmic, tragic, vatic reach}; Eclogue 7. Silenced Singer Drawn Back to Frame {Daphnis-Arcadian verses: restrained voice downs vatic push}; Eclogue 8. Framer Resifts {tragic 'love': Arcadian verse // vatic 'love': spells to get back Daphnis}; Eclogue 9. Roman Mythic Frame and Vatic Song Dispelled {Daphnis minus Roman role}

Rome minus Annals and Heroic Origin (Catullus)The Warp and Weft of Varying Motifs: Structure Charted; Notes; Bibliography; Index;