Language in Vergil's Eclogues

Language in Vergil's Eclogues
Title Language in Vergil's Eclogues PDF eBook
Author Michael Lipka
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 236
Release 2013-02-06
Genre History
ISBN 3110888432

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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.

Virgil's Eclogues

Virgil's Eclogues
Title Virgil's Eclogues PDF eBook
Author Virgil
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 112
Release 2010-03-09
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780812242256

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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.

A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues

A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues
Title A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues PDF eBook
Author Wendell Vernon Clausen
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 328
Release 1994
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780198149163

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Surprisingly, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the Eclogues to appear in this century. These ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. Clausen's commentary provides a comprehensive guide to both the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them. There are short introductions to each poem, as well as a general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole.

The Eclogues of Virgil

The Eclogues of Virgil
Title The Eclogues of Virgil PDF eBook
Author Virgil
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 74
Release 2015-10-20
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1466894911

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“Fresh-minted and sparkling . . . Ferry’s translation wonderfully preserves the exquisite harmonies of the mode while giving it a vigorous edge of reality.” —Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe Virgil’s great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of Gilgamesh . . . The 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. “Direct, unmannered and fresh: a modern version of classical simplicity.” —Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times “Mr. Ferry is a gifted poet and much-admired translator . . . Those to whom the original is a sealed book will enjoy much of its charm through the medium of the author’s accomplished translation, while those who, like Shakespeare, have ‘small Latin’ can experience the additional pleasure of savoring, with Mr. Ferry’s help, the musical perfection of Virgil’s lines.” —Bernard Knox, The Washington Times “Ferry has achieved a high degree of fidelity to what Virgil wrote . . . Simple, luminous clarity.” —Richard Jenkyns, The New Republic

Eclogues and Georgics

Eclogues and Georgics
Title Eclogues and Georgics PDF eBook
Author Virgil
Publisher
Pages 544
Release 1898
Genre Pastoral poetry, Latin
ISBN

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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Title The Cambridge Companion to Virgil PDF eBook
Author Charles Martindale
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 408
Release 1997-10-02
Genre History
ISBN 9780521498852

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Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

Vergil's Eclogues. Edited by Katharina Volk

Vergil's Eclogues. Edited by Katharina Volk
Title Vergil's Eclogues. Edited by Katharina Volk PDF eBook
Author Katharina Volk
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 302
Release 2008-08-21
Genre Drama
ISBN 0199202931

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