Download or read book Parthenope, The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic written by Gregson Davis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet-herdsmen of Vergil’s Eclogues employ differing strategies for coping with acute loss, whether external (e.g. land dispossession) or internal (amatory rejection). The interplay of ideas latent in several of their songs is typically framed in terms of Epicurean concepts.