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Vates -- Virgil as Poet-Prophet:
Reclaiming Epic Tradition from Lucretius & Catullus
in the Messianic Eclogue


Table of Contents


Acknowledgments  
ix

FOREWORD: The State of the Question  3

Preface                                                                          
13
1
Preamble. Virgil Vates        
15
2
Reclaiming Heroic Tradition: Catullus C. 64
37
3
Reclaiming Hesiodic Tradition: Lucretius                               
65
4
Language Renewed: puer, incrementum 91
5
Rereading & Reassembling the Whole                       
117

Text & Translation 
118

Analysis of Rhetoric & Theme
122

AFTERWORD: Towards New Reading
143

Bibliography of Studies Stemming from This One       
157

Indices
Texts & Intertexts                                              
Scholars & Subjects
Latin Words  


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