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.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction (David Armstrong) I. Early Vergil 1. Vergil's Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles (Diskin Clay) 2. Philosophy's Harbor (Francesca Longo Auricchio) 3. Vergil's Epicureanism in His Early Poems (RÉgine Chambert) II. Eclogues and Georgics4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue (Gregson Davis) 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116-148 (W. R. Johnson) 6. Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius (Marcello Gigante) III. The Aeneid: The Emotions 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus' De ira and Vergil's Aeneid (Giovanni Indelli) 8. Anger, Philodemus' Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567-589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum (Jeffrey Fish) 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil (Frederic M. Schroeder) IV. The Aeneid: Piety and the Gods 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus (Patricia A. Johnston) 11. Vergil's De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid (Dirk Obbink) 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid (Michael Wigodsky) V. The Aeneid: Aesthetics 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus' Aesthetics and Vergil's Artistic Vision (Marilyn B. Skinner) 14. Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus (Daniel Delattre) VI. Other Augustan Poets 15. Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus (David Armstrong) 16. Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? (Francis Cairns) Bibliography Contributors Index

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)

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.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction (David Armstrong) I. Early Vergil 1. Vergil's Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles (Diskin Clay) 2. Philosophy's Harbor (Francesca Longo Auricchio) 3. Vergil's Epicureanism in His Early Poems (RÉgine Chambert) II. Eclogues and Georgics4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue (Gregson Davis) 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116-148 (W. R. Johnson) 6. Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius (Marcello Gigante) III. The Aeneid: The Emotions 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus' De ira and Vergil's Aeneid (Giovanni Indelli) 8. Anger, Philodemus' Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567-589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum (Jeffrey Fish) 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil (Frederic M. Schroeder) IV. The Aeneid: Piety and the Gods 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus (Patricia A. Johnston) 11. Vergil's De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid (Dirk Obbink) 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid (Michael Wigodsky) V. The Aeneid: Aesthetics 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus' Aesthetics and Vergil's Artistic Vision (Marilyn B. Skinner) 14. Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus (Daniel Delattre) VI. Other Augustan Poets 15. Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus (David Armstrong) 16. Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? (Francis Cairns) Bibliography Contributors Index

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)

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.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction (David Armstrong) I. Early Vergil 1. Vergil's Farewell to Education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles (Diskin Clay) 2. Philosophy's Harbor (Francesca Longo Auricchio) 3. Vergil's Epicureanism in His Early Poems (RÉgine Chambert) II. Eclogues and Georgics4. Consolation in the Bucolic Mode: The Epicurean Cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue (Gregson Davis) 5. A Secret Garden: Georgics 4.116-148 (W. R. Johnson) 6. Vergil in the Shadow of Vesuvius (Marcello Gigante) III. The Aeneid: The Emotions 7. The Vocabulary of Anger in Philodemus' De ira and Vergil's Aeneid (Giovanni Indelli) 8. Anger, Philodemus' Good King, and the Helen Episode of Aeneid 2.567-589: A New Proof of Authenticity from Herculaneum (Jeffrey Fish) 9. Philodemus: Avocatio and the Pathos of Distance in Lucretius and Vergil (Frederic M. Schroeder) IV. The Aeneid: Piety and the Gods 10. Piety in Vergil and Philodemus (Patricia A. Johnston) 11. Vergil's De pietate: From Ehoiae to Allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid (Dirk Obbink) 12. Emotions and Immortality in Philodemus On the Gods 3 and the Aeneid (Michael Wigodsky) V. The Aeneid: Aesthetics 13. Carmen inane: Philodemus' Aesthetics and Vergil's Artistic Vision (Marilyn B. Skinner) 14. Vergil and Music, in Diogenes of Babylon and Philodemus (Daniel Delattre) VI. Other Augustan Poets 15. Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus (David Armstrong) 16. Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34? (Francis Cairns) Bibliography Contributors Index

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)