The Poetry of Pathos

Gian Biagio Conte is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos ; 3. Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime ; 4. Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics Again ; 5. The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid ; 6. Defensor Vergili: Richard Heinze on Virgil's Epic Technique ; 7. Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals ; 8. The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism ; 9. Proems in the Middle

...readers will welcome this collection of papers in Virgilian epic by an Italian scholar who has greatly influenced English-language Latin literary studies.