• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• Acknowledgments,
• Abbreviations,
• Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry,
• 1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus' First Idyll,
• 2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23),
• 3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48,
• 4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2),
• 5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll,
• 6. Theocritus' Seventh Idyll and Lycidas,
• 7. Simichidas' Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44,
• 8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus' Bucolic Idylls,
• 9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus' Bucolic Poetry,
• 10. Virgil's Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue,
• 11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil's Third and Fourth Eclogues,
• 12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9,
• 13. Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil,
• 14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26),
• 15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus,
• Index,

Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.
Originally published in 1981.
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