Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans / edited by David Armstrong [and others].

The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has h...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Armstrong, David, 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Philodemus, > approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C.
Epicurus.
Virgil.
Epicurus
Virgil
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Latin poetry
Rome > Poetry.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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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