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THE POETRY OF PATHOS This page intentionally left blank The Poetry of Pathos Studies in Virgilian Epic GIAN BIAGIO CONTE Editedby S. J. HARRISON 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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His practical help has of course beenvital in producing the current volume, and I would like to thank him for that and for his many otherkindnesses. The real work of the English translation was done by Elaine Fantham(Chapters2and5–8)andGlennMost(Chapters3,4,and 9); my interventions have been restricted to editorial tidying, and these distinguished scholars deserve the full credit for these render- ings. I am especially grateful to Elaine Fantham for supplying her version of Chapter 7 for the purposes of this book with impressive celerity, and for kindly providing footnotes for that chapter, and to Glenn Most for generous help with checking the Wnal text of the volume.MythankstootoDanielJohnsonfortimelyhelpinprodu- cing the text of Chapter 9. The anonymous referees for Oxford UniversityPressshouldalsobethankedforsomeusefulandsalutary comments. This volume translates the contents of Virgilio: L’epica del senti- mento (Turin, 2002), with the addition of Chapters 1 and 5, both published here for the Wrst time, and Chapters 7 and 9, both previ- ously published in Italian in G. B. Conte, Virgilio: il genere e i suoi conWni (2nd edition; Milan, 1984). An earlier English version of Chapter 2 appeared in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 45 (1999), 17–42, one of Chapter 4 in S. Spence (ed.), Poets and Critics Read Virgil (New Haven, 2001), 44–63, and one of Chapter9inBeginningsinClassicalLiterature(YaleClassicalStudies, 29;1992),147–59. S.J.H. CorpusChristiCollege,Oxford November2005 This page intentionally left blank Contents 1. IntroductionbyStephenHarrison 1 2. TheVirgilianParadox:AnEpic ofDramaandPathos 23 3. AnatomyofaStyle:Enallageandthe NewSublime 58 4. Aristaeus,Orpheus,andtheGeorgics: onceagain 123 5. TheStrategyofContradiction:Onthe DramaticFormoftheAeneid 150 6. DefensorVergilii:RichardHeinzeon Virgil’sEpicTechnique 170 7. TowardsaNewExegesisofVirgil: ReconsiderationsandProposals 184 8. TheMeetingofStylisticsandTextualCriticism 212 9. ProemsintheMiddle 219 Bibliography 232 Indexlocorum 244 GeneralIndex 249 This page intentionally left blank 1 Introduction by Stephen Harrison Gian Biagio Conte has been an internationally acknowledged leading scholar of Roman poetry and prose for several decades. He has playeda major partin thestudyof Latin literature in both Italy and the Anglophone world, primarily through his own inXuential writings, but also through his foundation in 1978 of the important journal Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici,1 through thestringofdistinguishedscholarswhohavebeentaughtbyhimat Pisa,andthroughhisextensivepersonalcontactswithotherLatinists in Italy, the UK, and the USA. In the introduction to this volume, I will try Wrst to describe this new collection of papers on Virgil, and then to characterize Conte’s scholarly output as a whole and its developmentovertheyears.2 1. VIRGIL: THE EPIC OF PATHOS In much of the collection which this volume largely translates, Wrst publishedinItalianin2002andcontaining piecesmostlywrittenin the 1990s, Conte makes a crucial argument: that the exceptional status of the Aeneid in Latin literature derives from its remarkably complexandambiguouspoetictexture.Heespeciallyemphasizesthe 1 Not forgetting its series of monograph supplements, in which several im- portant works by Conte pupils have been published, e.g. Barchiesi (1984), Labate (1984), Bonfanti (1985), and fourteen further volumes: for details see http://www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave¼17 (accessed 8.6.2004). 2 ExcellentaccountsofConte’sworkcanalsobefoundinthetwointroductionsby CharlesSegaltoitsmajorEnglishtranslations(Conte1986a,Conte1994b).
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