Eclogues Commentary on Virgil / Wendell Clausen.
By: Virgil
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Contributor(s): Clausen, Wendell Vernon.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995 1994Description: xxx, 328 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0198150350.Subject(s): Pastoral poetry, LatinDDC classification: 872.01 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 872.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00014357 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Surprising though it may seem, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary in English on Virgil's Eclogues. Written between about 42 and 35 BC, these ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. They have inspired numerous poets - Sidney, Ronsard, and others - and at the same time have held enduring fascination among scholars for their sophistaicated and allusive blend of Theocritean idyll and contemporary Roman history. Professor Clausen's commentary will provide a comprehensive guide to the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them, and should be indispensable to all serious students of Virgil's poetry. Special attention is paid throughout the commentary to the important question of Virgil's use of Theocritus and other Hellenistic poets, with translations provided of all Greek passages. There are many new and illuminating observations on Virgil's poetic style and vocabulary, often with reference to his Latin predecessors: Lucretius, Catullus and (virtually unnoticed by previous scholars) Plautus. A third feature of the commentary is a new examination of the plants and trees in the poems - both their exact identification and their significance. There are helpful introductions to each poem, as well as a comprehensive general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole, in which Professor Clausen discusses the nature of ancient pastoral poetry, the structure of the Eclogues, and the composition of a pastoral landscape by Virgil and Theocritus.
A commentary on the Eclogues by an expert on Latin literature. These poems are a blend of "Arcadian" idyll and contemporary Roman history.
Surprising though it may seem, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary in English on Virgil's Eclogues. Written between about 42 and 35 BC, these ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. They have inspired numerous poets - Sidney, Ronsard and others - and at the same time have held enduring fascination among scholars for their sophisticated and allusive blend of Theocritean idyll and contemporary Roman history. Professor Clausen's commentary will provide a comprehensive guide to the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them, and should be indispensable to all serious students of Virgil's poetry. Special attention is paid throughout the commentary to the important question of Virgil's use of Theocritus and other Hellenistic poets, with translations provided of all Greek passages. There are many new and illuminating observations on Virgil's poetic style and vocabulary, often with reference to his Latin predecessors: Lucretius, Catullus and (virtually unnoticed by previous scholars) Plautus. A third feature of the commentary is a new examination of the plants and trees in the poems - both their exact identification and their significance. There are helpful introductions to each poem, as well as a comprehensive general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole, in which Professor Clausen discusses the nature of ancient pastoral poetry, the structure of the Eclogues, and the composition of a pastoral landscape by Virgil and Theocritus.
Bibliography: (xi-xiii) and indexes.
Introduction -- Latercvlvs Notarvm -- Sigla Codicvm -- Text -- Commentary.
Professional and scholarly.
In English & Latin.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. ix)
- Bibliography (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. xv)
- Latercvlvs Notarvm (p. 1)
- Sigla Codicvm (p. 2)
- Bvcolica (p. 3)
- Bvcolica (p. 3)
- Ecloga II (p. 5)
- Ecloga III Menalcas Damoetas Palaemon (p. 7)
- Ecloga IV (p. 11)
- Ecloga V (p. 13)
- Ecloga VI (p. 15)
- Ecloga VI (p. 18)
- Ecloga VIII (p. 20)
- Ecloga IX Lycidas Moeris (p. 24)
- Ecloga X (p. 26)
- Commentary (p. 29)
- Commentary (p. 29)
- Commentary (p. 29)
- Bibliography (p. 33)
- Eclogue 2 (p. 61)
- Eclogue 2 (p. 61)
- Bibliography (p. 63)
- Eclogue 3 (p. 86)
- Eclogue 3 (p. 86)
- Bibliography (p. 92)
- Bibliography (p. 92)
- Eclogue 4 (p. 119)
- Eclogue 4 (p. 119)
- Bibliography (p. 129)
- Bibliography (p. 130)
- Appendix the Fourth Eclogue and Horace's Sixteenth Epode (p. 145)
- Eclogue 5 (p. 151)
- Eclogue 5 (p. 151)
- Bibliography (p. 155)
- Bibliography (p. 155)
- Eclogue 6 (p. 174)
- Eclogue 6 (p. 174)
- Bibliography (p. 178)
- Bibliography (p. 178)
- Eclogue 7 (p. 210)
- Eclogue 7 (p. 210)
- Bibliography (p. 213)
- Bibliography (p. 213)
- Eclogue 8 (p. 233)
- Eclogue 8 (p. 233)
- Bibliography (ll.6-13) (p. 239)
- Bibliography (ll.6-13) (p. 240)
- Eclogue 9 (p. 266)
- Eclogue 9 (p. 266)
- Bibliography (p. 268)
- Eclogue 10 (p. 288)
- Eclogue 10 (p. 288)
- Bibliography (p. 292)
- General Index (p. 313)
- Index of Names (p. 319)
- Index of Latin Words (p. 323)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C.E., in Northern Italy in a small village near Mantua. He attended school at Cremona and Mediolanum (Milan), then went to Rome, where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric, and finally completed his studies in Naples. He entered literary circles as an "Alexandrian," the name given to a group of poets who sought inspiration in the sophisticated work of third-century Greek poets, also known as Alexandrians. In 49 BC Virgil became a Roman citizen.After his studies in Rome, Vergil is believed to have lived with his father for about 10 years, engaged in farm work, study, and writing poetry. After the battle of Philippi in 42 B.C.E. Virgil¿s property in Cisalpine Gaul, was confiscated for veterans. In the following years Virgil spent most of his time in Campania and Sicily, but he also had a house in Rome. During the reign of emperor Augustus, Virgil became a member of his court circle and was advanced by a minister, Maecenas, patron of the arts and close friend to the poet Horace. He gave Virgil a house near Naples.
Between 42 and 37 B.C.E. Virgil composed pastoral poems known as Bucolic or Eclogues and spent years on the Georgics. The rest of his life, from 30 to 19 B.C., Virgil devoted to The Aeneid, the national epic of Rome, and the glory of the Empire. Although ambitious, Virgil was never really happy about the task.
Virgil died in 19 B. C.
(Bowker Author Biography)