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Calpurnius Siculus and the Transformation of Pastoral

by Yelena Baraz
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780197823194
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: USD 105.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 368 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical

One of three surviving collections of Latin bucolic poetry, the seven Eclogues transmitted under the name of Calpurnius Siculus are generally assigned to the reign of Nero, although the debate on dating continues, with proposals ranging between the later first and third centuries CE. Calpurnius follows Vergil's Eclogues as his main model, but reaches back to Theocritus for additional pastoral features, and the poems show the influences of later works of Vergil, Ovid, and other elegists.

Two factors have made Calpurnius a "marginal" poet: the collection's lack of historical context and the status of bucolic poetry as a minor, discontinuous genre. This literary study embraces these factors as an opportunity for a de-historicized reading of Calpurnius by interpreting the poems closely and within the context of the bucolic tradition but without reference to any kind of contemporary context. In doing so, Yelena Baraz explores questions about the working of tradition in Latin poetry, but also about how we approach Latin poetry and what issues we are drawn to given our own scholarly tradition. The book invites questions about reading literature on its own terms and, in particular, reading intertextually. The author also provides a new translation of Calpurnius' poems, the first in nearly a century, along with the Latin text.

Yelena Baraz is Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Princeton University and the Director of the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Her previous books include A Written Republic: The Cultural Politics of Cicero's Philosophy and Reading Roman Pride.

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