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Seeking Solace in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.
Seeking Solace in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문
- Control Number
- 0017162513
- International Standard Book Number
- 9798383692066
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 880
- Main Entry-Personal Name
- Sherry, Matthew W.
- Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint
- [S.l.] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill., 2024
- Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- Physical Description
- 207 p.
- General Note
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- General Note
- Advisor: O'Hara, James J.
- Dissertation Note
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.
- Summary, Etc.
- 요약This dissertation examines poetry as a source of solace within Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid. I argue that Vergil presents suffering as a compounding cycle. In each text, characters turn to poetry via song and metapoetic actions that reflect poetic composition (such as weaving or sculpture) to soothe their suffering, but their efforts prove ineffective and, at times, even counterproductive. In the Eclogues, urban encroachment of a twofold nature-manifesting itself politically as land confiscations and generically as love elegy-threatens the idyllic paradise of the resident shepherds. As shepherds lose their ties to the countryside, they also lose the ability to sing bucolic song and, with it, access to consolation for their losses. In the Georgics, success requires perfection and any misstep can result in failure. The disasters that hinder the ability to farm, such as the plague, also hinder the attempts to console the difficulties of labor (both physical "work" and emotional "suffering"). Agricultural failure compounds alongside emotional suffering, and solace lies out of reach for those who suffer most. In the Aeneid, glory tied to Augustan Rome's future greatness is offered as compensation for death, but it consoles the losses of Aeneas' present neither for the dead nor the living who survive them. Though Euryalus earns eternal fame, the nature of his death deprives both him and his mother of lasting consolation and closure. Parents lose their means of consolation together with their children-a particularly poignant depiction of the cost of establishing Augustan Rome.Corresponding to the compounding cycle of suffering and poetry's inability to soothe it, potentially hopeful conclusions-Moeris' departure to the city in Eclogue 9, Aristaeus' bugonia in the Georgics, or Aeneas' defeat of Turnus in the Aeneid-yield a similarly circular pattern: at its core any glimmer of hope prolongs the sorrow it is meant to combat. What remains is a downward, inescapable spiral where solutions, like poetry itself, prove not only ineffective but self-defeating, exhibiting the poet's anxiety that the endeavors to bring to an end the civil strife of the 1st Century BCE may do more harm than good.
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Classical literature.
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Classical studies.
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Literature.
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Language arts.
- Index Term-Uncontrolled
- Aeneid
- Index Term-Uncontrolled
- Eclogues
- Index Term-Uncontrolled
- Georgics
- Index Term-Uncontrolled
- Solace
- Index Term-Uncontrolled
- Bucolic song
- Index Term-Uncontrolled
- Vergil
- Added Entry-Corporate Name
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Classics
- Host Item Entry
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
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