The Eclogues Of Vergil

Author : George C. Paraskeviotis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 526 pages
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Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527542792

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Vergil’s Eclogues by George C. Paraskeviotis Pdf

Between 42 and 39 BC, Vergil composed the first Latin pastoral collection, entitled Eclogues, and consisting of ten poems in the form in which it has come down to us. Vergil’s Eclogues represent the introduction of a new genre, the pastoral, to Latin literature, and recall the Hellenistic poet Theocritus who invented this genre. The fact that the Roman author inserts into the text elements from other Greek and Latin texts modifying them through innovations and changes (constitutes an attractive field of research. This book shows that Vergil’s dialogue with the earlier Greek and Latin tradition is not only typical of the way in which Latin literature was written in the 1st century BC; rather, it is also a dynamic literary method used to affect and define the character of each Eclogue.

Author : H.J. Rose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520339330

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The Eclogues of Vergil by H.J. Rose Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942.

Author : Katharina Volk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199202935

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Vergil's Eclogues. Edited by Katharina Volk by Katharina Volk Pdf

A collection of ten classic essays on Virgil's 'Eclogues', written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Virgilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written introduction.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812205367

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Virgil's Eclogues by Virgil Pdf

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in the time in which they were created.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pastoral poetry, Latin
ISBN : UCSC:32106001548905

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Eclogues and Georgics by Virgil Pdf

Author : Michael Lipka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110888430

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Language in Vergil's Eclogues by Michael Lipka Pdf

In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen stehen sozial-, politik-, finanz- und kulturgeschichtliche Arbeiten aus der Klassischen Antike und der Spätantike. Entscheidend für die Aufnahme ist die Qualität einer Arbeit; besonderen Wert legen die Herausgeber auf eine umfassende Heranziehung der einschlägigen Texte und Quellen und deren sorgfältige kritische Auswertung.

Author : Leendert Weeda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110426427

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Vergil ́s Political Commentary by Leendert Weeda Pdf

In the book titled Vergil's political commentary in Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, the author examines Vergil’s political views by analyzing the whole of the poet’s work. He introduces the notion of the functional model suggesting that the poet often used this instrument when making a political statement. New interpretations of a number of the Eclogues and passages of the Georgics and the Aeneid are suggested and the author concludes that Vergil’s political engagement is visible in much of his work. During his whole career the poet was consistent in his views on several major political themes. These varied from, the distress caused by the violation of the countryside during and after the expropriations in the 40s B.C., to the horrors of the civil war and the violence of war in general, and the necessity of strong leadership. Vergil hoped and expected that Octavian would establish peace and order, and he supported a form of hereditary kingship for which he considered Octavian a suitable candidate. He held Cleopatra in high regard, and he appreciated a more meaningful role for women in society. Vergil wrote poetry that supported Augustus, but he had also the courage to criticize Octavian and his policies. He was a commentator with an independent mind and was not a member of Augustus’ putative propaganda machine.

Author : Virgil,William Frederick Masom,Francis Giffard Plaistowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112072027805

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Vergil, the Eclogues by Virgil,William Frederick Masom,Francis Giffard Plaistowe Pdf

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 148370341X

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The Georgics and the Eclogues by Virgil Pdf

The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil, containing ten pieces, each called not an idyll, populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. The Georgics is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, with the subject of agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, The Eclogues, The Georgics, and The Aeneid.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807861547

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Vergil's Eclogues by Anonim Pdf

Best remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman authorities threatened to seize his family's land, Vergil's appeal in the form of Eclogue IX won a stay. Eclogue I appears to be a thank-you for that favor. Barbara Hughes Fowler provides scholars and students with a new American verse translation of Vergil's Eclogues. An accomplished translator, Fowler renders the poet's words into an English that is contemporary while remaining close to the spirit of the original. In an introduction to the text, she compares the treatment of the pastoral form by Vergil and Theocritus, illuminating the ways in which Vergil borrowed from and built upon the earlier poet's work, and thereby moved the genre in a new direction.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9783986777876

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The Eclogues by Virgil Pdf

The Eclogues Virgil - Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of GilgameshThe Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, which were influential in so much subsequent literature, perhaps best exemplify what pastoral can do. "Song replying to song replying to song," touchingly comic, poignantly sad, sublimely joyful, the various music that these shepherds make echoes in scenes of repose and harmony, and of hardship and trouble in work and love.Available in ebook for the first time, this English-only edition of The Eclogues of Virgil includes concise, informative notes and an introduction that describes the fundamental role of this deeply original book in the pastoral tradition.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0812242254

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Virgil's Eclogues by Virgil Pdf

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the epic in the time in which it was created.

Author : Virgil Virgil
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102146709X

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The Eclogues of Vergil by Virgil Virgil Pdf

The Eclogues (also known as the Bucolics) is a collection of ten pastoral poems written by the Roman poet Virgil in the 1st century BC. The poems are set in the countryside and feature shepherds and other rural characters. They explore themes of love, nature, and the relationship between humans and the divine. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in classical literature and the history of poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:686646536

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The eclogues of Vergil by Virgil Pdf

Author : Herbert Jennings Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883192460

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The Eclogues of Vergil by Herbert Jennings Rose Pdf