Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans /
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 h...
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Austin, TX :
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2004.
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Table of 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.