The poetry of pathos: studies in Virgilian epic

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos 3. Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime 4. Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics Again 5. The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid 6. Defensor Vergili: Richard Heinze on Virgil's Epic Technique 7. Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals 8. The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism 9. Proems in the Middle