Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

by: Armstrong, D. Fish, J. Johnston, P.A. Skinner, M.B.

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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.

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

ubjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Epicurus
LITERARY CRITICISM Ancient & Classical
Latin poetry
Latin poetry History and criticism
PHILOSOPHY History & Surveys Ancient & Classical
Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C
Poetry
Poésie latine Histoire et critique
Rome (Empire)
Rome Poetry
Virgil

Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

by: Armstrong, D. Fish, J. Johnston, P.A. Skinner, M.B.

• ISBN-13: 9780292701816 / 978-0-292-70181-6
• ISBN-03: 0292701810 / 0-292-70181-0
• University of Texas Press, Austin, 2004

Price: 89,00 EURO

1 copy in stock