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- ISBN 9780198827764
- Weight: 990g
- Dimensions: 164 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore complex elements of poetic, literary, philosophical, and even figurative culture, and to express the drama of civil war and expropriations.
In this commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, Andrea Cucchiarelli analyses the Eclogues in depth, establishing comparisons with both Greek and Roman poetic models, with philosophical texts, and with significant later texts from the Roman poetic tradition. The commentary is the first to offer a systematic account of the poem in its historical context, between the end of the Republic and the Age of Augustus: particular attention is also paid to the language of the figurative arts, which for Roman readers constituted an important complement to literary knowledge of myths and stories. The volume offers the reader a reliable and concise interpretation of the text, which is systematically lemmatized and annotated throughout; each eclogue is additionally accompanied by an introductory overview and a detailed bibliography to direct further reading.
Andrea Cucchiarelli is Full Professor of Latin Literature at La Sapienza University of Rome. He has published widely on Lucretius, Cicero, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Petronius, and his recent books include Virgilio: Le Bucoliche (Carocci, 2012), Orazio: L'esperienza delle cose (Marsilio, 2015), and Orazio: Epistole libro I (Scuola Normale Superiore, 2019).
