Vergil, Philodemus and the Augustans
Sixteen leading scholars trace Philodemus's influence on Vergil's early writings, the Eclogues and the Georgics, and on the Aeneid, as well as on the writings of Horace and others.
Print Book, English, cop. 2004
University of Texas Press, Austin, cop. 2004
XII, 361 p
9780292701816, 0292701810
758116136
Vergil's farewell to education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' letter to Pythocles / Diskin Clay
Philosophy's harbor / Francesca Longo Auricchio
Vergil's epicureanism in his early poems / Régine Chambert
Consolation in the bucolic mode : the Epicurean cadence of Vergil's first eclogue / Gregson Davis
A secret garden : Georgics 4.116-148 / W.R. Johnson
Vergil in the shadow of Vesuvius / Marcello Gigante
The vocabulary of anger in Philodemus' De Ira and Vergil's Aeneid / Giovanni Indelli
Anger, Philodemus' Good king, and the Helen episode of Aeneid 2.567-589 : a new proof of authenticity from Herculaneum / Jeffrey Fish
Philodemus : Avocatio and the pathos of distance in Lucretius and Vergil / Frederic M. Schroeder
Piety in Vergil and Philodemus / Patricia A. Johnston
Vergil's De pietate : from Ehoiae to allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid / Dirk Obbink
Emotions and immortality in Philodemus On the gods 3 and the Aeneid / Michael Wigodsky
Carmen inane : Philodemus' aesthetics and Vergil's artistic vision / Marilyn B. Skinner
Vergil and music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus / Daniel Delattre
Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus / David Armstrong
Varius and Vergil : two pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? / Francis Cairns
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