Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral

The definition of the genre itself, though not the main topic, is often an underlying concern of the European and US classicists who present 23 essays. Among their topics are the herdsman in Greek thought, epigram at the margins of pastoral, panegyric in Virgil's Bucolics, pastoral anxieties in Senecan drama, the pastoral novel and the bucolic tradition, and the pastoral in Byzantium. Quotations are in the original with English translation. This is a paperback reprint of a book first published in 2006. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Marco Fantuzzi is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature in the Graduate School of the University of Florence and at the University of Macerata. His works include: Bionis Smyrnaei "Adonidis epitaphium" (Liverpool 1985), Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio (Rome 1988), and (with R. Hunter) Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge 2004).Theodore D. Papanghelis, Ph.D. (1985) in Classics, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Latin at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the author of Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (Cambridge 1987) and editor (with A. Rengakos) of A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (Brill, 2001).