The eclogues / Virgil ; the Latin text with a verse translation and brief notes by Guy Lee Virgil

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Author
Virgil
Subjects
Country life - Poetry.; Virgil; Country life - Rome - Poetry.
Audience
Adult
Contents
  • Machine generated contents note: Cues for Drama: Mime Revoicing Roman Mythic Frame
  • Eclogue 1 Contrary Fates Clash: Citizen-Singer Silenced {break with former Roman frame and vatic voice} // Old Slave Free to Sing {new Roman framing myth and vatic voice}
  • Eclogue 2 New Roman Myth Frames Restless Song in Love {love spell builds thematic reach}
  • Eclogue 3 Erotic-Vatic Singing Swells Mythic Frame {`all' filled by Jove}
  • Eclogue 4 Full Vatic Song {myth frames `all': bucolic, georgic, civic-heroic, cosmic ranges}
  • Eclogue 5 Vatic Hymns Cap Roman Myth {new bucolic-georgic (Roman) hero: Daphnis}
  • Eclogue 6 Freed Singer-Slave Put Down {Amor // Roma: cosmic, tragic, vatic reach}
  • Eclogue 7 Silenced Singer Drawn Back to Frame {Daphnis
  • -Arcadian verses: restrained voice downs vatic push}
  • Eclogue 8 Framer Resifts {tragic `love': Arcadian verse // vatic `love': spells to get back Daphnis}
  • Eclogue 9 Roman Mythic Frame and Vatic Song Dispelled {Daphnis minus Roman role}
  • Contents note continued: Eclogue 10 New-Old Framing Myth: Arcadia {vatic singer's new home: Gallus in for Daphnis as bucolic-tragic hero}
  • Scripts: The Eclogues to Rehearse and Read
  • First.Meliboeus and Tityrus {exile from old Roman order versus new god at Rome}
  • Second.Framer {Corydon's trying erotic-vatic charm}
  • Third.Menalcas and Damoetas {Palaemon: erotic-vatic growth to universal frame}
  • Fourth.Framer: Seer-Bard {vatic song of new Roman hero = Fates}
  • Fifth.Menalcas and Mopsus {vatic voices: Daphnis up as new god}
  • Sixth.Tityrus {vatic Silenus Phoebus}
  • Seventh.Meliboeus {Daphnis and Arcadians: Corydon
  • -restraint up // Thyrsis
  • -vatic growth downed}
  • Eighth.Framer (maker of book) {Damon down, vatic Alphesiboeus up}
  • Ninth.Lycidas and Moeris {Menalcas: Daphnis freed from vatic frame}
  • Tenth.Framer (the weaver of the book) {Menalcas Arcadian, bucolic-tragic Gallus = Daphnis}
  • Clues in Social Memory: Threads from Tragedy and Epos
  • Contents note continued: Oldest Epic Frame: Generic Threads (Homer, Hesiod)
  • Old Threads, New Twists: Cyclops, Phaedrus
  • New Frames from Old Threads: Hellenistic and Alexandrian
  • Epos for New Empire: Heroic Myth to Frame New Roman Power
  • Rome minus Annals and Heroic Origin (Catullus)
  • The Warp and Weft of Varying Motifs: Structure Charted.
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