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Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans / / ed. by David Armstrong, Marilyn B. Skinner, Patricia A. Johnston, Jeffrey Fish.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : : University of Texas Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (375 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292798113
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 187
LOC classification:
  • B598.P44 .V47 2004
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Early Vergil -- 1.Vergil's Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles -- 2. Philosophy's Harbor -- 3.Vergil's Epicureanism in His Early Poems -- II. Eclogues and Georgics -- 4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue -- 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116-148 -- 6.Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius -- III. The Aeneid: The emotions -- 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus' De ira and Vergil's Aeneid -- 8. Anger, Philodemus' Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567-589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum -- 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil -- IV. The Aeneid: piety and the gods -- 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus -- 11.Vergil's De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid -- 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid -- V. the Aeneid: aesthetics -- 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus' Aesthetics and Vergil's Artistic Vision -- 14.Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus -- VI. Other Augustan Poets -- 15. Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus -- 16.Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum
Summary: 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 had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As improved texts and translations of Philodemus' writings have become available since the 1970s, scholars have taken a keen interest in his relations with leading Latin poets. The essays in this book, derived from papers presented at the First International Symposium on Philodemus, Vergil, and the Augustans held in 2000, offer a new baseline for understanding the effect of Philodemus and Epicureanism on both the thought and poetic practices of Vergil, Horace, and other Augustan writers. Sixteen leading scholars trace his 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. The volume editors also provide a substantial introduction to Philodemus' philosophical ideas for all classicists seeking a fuller understanding of this pivotal figure.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Early Vergil -- 1.Vergil's Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles -- 2. Philosophy's Harbor -- 3.Vergil's Epicureanism in His Early Poems -- II. Eclogues and Georgics -- 4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue -- 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116-148 -- 6.Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius -- III. The Aeneid: The emotions -- 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus' De ira and Vergil's Aeneid -- 8. Anger, Philodemus' Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567-589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum -- 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil -- IV. The Aeneid: piety and the gods -- 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus -- 11.Vergil's De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid -- 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid -- V. the Aeneid: aesthetics -- 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus' Aesthetics and Vergil's Artistic Vision -- 14.Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus -- VI. Other Augustan Poets -- 15. Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus -- 16.Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum

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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 had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As improved texts and translations of Philodemus' writings have become available since the 1970s, scholars have taken a keen interest in his relations with leading Latin poets. The essays in this book, derived from papers presented at the First International Symposium on Philodemus, Vergil, and the Augustans held in 2000, offer a new baseline for understanding the effect of Philodemus and Epicureanism on both the thought and poetic practices of Vergil, Horace, and other Augustan writers. Sixteen leading scholars trace his 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. The volume editors also provide a substantial introduction to Philodemus' philosophical ideas for all classicists seeking a fuller understanding of this pivotal figure.

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