A Companion to the Study of Virgil

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Nicholas Horsfall
BRILL, 1 août 2000 - 330 pages
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"A Companion to the Study of Virgil" is not yet another introduction to Virgil's poetry, nor is it the thinking man's version of the bibliographies in ANRW. The editor and three outside contributors offer a guide both to the key problems and to the most intelligent discussions. They do not offer 'solutions' to all the difficulties, but are not frightened to admit that "this" we do not know, that "that" is a mess, and that "there" more work is to be done. The book is aimed at graduate students and university teachers. Many of the issues are difficult and artificial simplifications seem to offer no advantages. Apart from ample discussion of the poems and the main issues they raise, the book offers chapters on the life of Virgil (Horsfall), his style (Horsfall), his influence on later Latin epic (W.R. Barnes), on Latin life and culture (Horsfall), and on his MS tradition (Geymonat).
 

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Table des matières

Virgil his life and times
1
Bucolics
27
Georgics
63
audience of G
95
Aeneid
101
Style language and metre
217
Virgils impact at Rome
249
Virgil The literary impact
257
The transmission of Virgils works
293
Appendix
313
Addenda
327
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Page 128 - Upon the whole matter, and humanly speaking, I doubt there was a fault somewhere ; and Jupiter is better able to bear the blame, than either Virgil or ./Eneas.
Page 21 - Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere : tenet nunc Parthenope : cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Page 226 - ... omnibus idem animus, scelerata excedere terra, linqui pollutum hospitium et dare classibus Austros. ergo instauramus Polydoro funus, et ingens aggeritur tumulo tellus; stant Manibus...
Page 58 - Tityri sub persona Vergilium debemus accipere; non tamen ubique, sed tantum ubi exigit ratio »). Alla stessa coerenza tra significato allegorico e letterale si attenne il Petrarca nei suoi carmi bucolici.
Page 300 - Sane quidam dicunt uersus alios hos a poeta hoc loco relictos, qui ab eius emendatoribus sublati sint...
Page 294 - lac mihi non aestate novum, non frigore: defit', id est semper mihi...
Page 65 - Te quoque, magna Pales, et te memorande canemus pastor ab Amphryso, uos, siluae amnesque Lycaei. cetera, quae uacuas tenuissent carmine mentes, omnia iam uulgata: quis aut Eurysthea durum aut inlaudati nescit Busiridis aras? 5 cui non dictus Hylas puer et Latonia Delos Hippodameque umeroque Pelops insignis eburno, acer equis? temptanda uia est, qua me quoque possim tollere humo uictorque uirum uolitare per ora. primus ego in patriam mecum, modo uita supersit...
Page 145 - There could not easily be a more ennobling spectacle for a young man who aspires to fame and virtue. For who would not be inspired by the sight of the images of men renowned for their excellence, all together and as if alive and breathing ? What spectacle could be more glorious than this ? 54.
Page 111 - M. McCall, Ancient rhetorical theories of simile and comparison (Cambridge, Mass. 1969), 252, n.

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Nicolas Horsfall lives in Rome and has published numerous books and articles on Latin literature, mythology and the Roman world, including: La villa sabina di Orazio (Venosa 1993); Virgilio: L'epopea in alambicco (Napoli 1991); Cornelis Nepos: A selection, including the lives of Cato and Atticus; translated with introductions and commentary (Oxford 1989); Vir bonus discendi peritus; studies in celebration of Otto Skutsch's eightieth birthday (London 1988); Roman myth and mythography with J.N. Bremmer (London 1987).

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