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. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)