Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral

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Marco Fantuzzi, Theodore D. Papanghelis
BRILL, 2006 M06 1 - 680 pages
This volume comprises articles by an international team of twenty-three scholars. The contributions focus on the historical genesis, stylistic and narrative features and evolution of pastoral, both as genre and mode, from Theocritus to the Byzantine period.
Special attention has been paid to the idea of the 'invention of a fictionalized tradition', and to pastoral’s thematic and formal relationship with other literary genres.
In their totality, the contributions, as well as offering a comprehensive overview of the more or less familiar issues and ideas discussed in connection with pastoral, point to new emphases, trends and insights in current scholarly work in this area. The volume is addressed to a wide range of students and scholars in classics, but much in it will also be of interest to those working in the fields of comparative and modern literatures.

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Contents

The Herdsman in Greek Thought
1
Lyric and Elegiac Resonances in Theocritus Bucolic Idylls
25
How Bucolic are Theocritus Bucolic Singers?
53
Magic Medicine and Eros in the Prologue to Theocritus Id 11
75
Ptolemaic Pastoral
91
Is There Urban Pastoral? The Case of Theocritus Id 15
119
Epigram at the Margins of Pastoral
147
The Idea of Bucolic in the Imitators of Theocritus 3rd1st century BC
167
Textuality in Virgils Eclogues
369
Ovids Metamorphoses Bucolic Evolution and Bucolic Criticism
403
A Dream Shattered? Pastoral Anxieties in Senecan Drama
427
Latin Pastoral after Virgil
451
Bucolic Tradition and Poetic Programme in Calpurnius Siculus
467
The Pastoral Novel and the Bucolic Tradition
479
Virgil Longus and the Pipes of Pan
499
The Drama of Pastoral in Nonnus and Colluthus
515

Continuity and Change in Greek Bucolic between Theocritus and Virgil
209
Theocritus Constructive Interpreters and the Creation of a Bucolic Reader
235
Virgils Ecl I and the Origins of Pastoral
263
Cultural and Historical Narratives in Virgils Eclogues and Lucretius
275
Panegyric in Virgils Bucolics
301
Time and Textuality in the Book of the Eclogues
333
The Pastoral in Byzantium
549
Bibliography
581
General Index
615
Index of Passages Discussed
629
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