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Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet's attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.
"It is a highly eloquent introduction, written with unusual grace and imaginative sensitivity. Lee has made a very judicial and tasteful use of recent interpretive scholarship avoiding many of the idiosyncrasies and excesses of his predecessors." — Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University, Bloomington
"The Jungian interpretations are not forced and do indeed bring new insights to the archetypal patterns that seem to be present in Virgil." — Charles Fantazzi, University of Windsor
Foreword
Acknowledgments
I. Mariposa
II. Sicilia
III. Mantua
IV. Arcadia
V. Figures in a Landscape
VI. Music: Eclogues 3 and 7
VII. Love: Eclogues 2 and 8
VIII. The City: Eclogues 1 and 9
IX. The Golden Age: Eclogue 4
X. Death: Eclogue 5
XI. Leaving Arcadia: Eclogue 10
XII. Reading the Eclogues
XIII. Interpreting the Eclogues: Eclogue 6
Notes
Index of Names