Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

Published by University of Texas Press 2003

Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

Edited by: David Armstrong , Jeffrey Fish , Patricia A. Johnston and Marilyn B. Skinner

https://doi.org/10.7560/701816

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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.

Author / Editor information

David Armstrong is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jeffrey Fish is Assistant Professor of Classics at Baylor University.

Patricia A. Johnston is Professor of Classics at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

Marilyn B. Skinner is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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This is an outstanding collection. It is beautifully produced and provides a fascinating insight into one of the most promising and productive areas of current Vergilian scholarship.

— Vergilius

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction David Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Early Vergil
1.Vergil’s Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus’ Letter to Pythocles Diskin Clay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Philosophy’s Harbor Francesca Longo Auricchio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3.Vergil’s Epicureanism in His Early Poems Régine Chambert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
II. Eclogues and Georgics
4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil’s First Eclogue Gregson Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116–148 W. R. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6.Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius Marcello Gigante Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
III. The Aeneid: The emotions
7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus’ De ira and Vergil’s Aeneid Giovanni Indelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
8. Anger, Philodemus’ Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567–589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum Jeffrey Fish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil Frederic M. Schroeder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
IV. The Aeneid: piety and the gods
10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus Patricia A. Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
11.Vergil’s De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid Dirk Obbink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid Michael Wigodsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
V. the Aeneid: aesthetics
13. Carmen inane: Philodemus’ Aesthetics and Vergil’s Artistic Vision Marilyn B. Skinner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
14.Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus Daniel Delattre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
VI. Other Augustan Poets
15. Horace’s Epistles 1 and Philodemus David Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
16.Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? Francis Cairns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 375

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Published: January 1, 2010
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