Parthenope, The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic

This study of the Eclogues focuses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness (eudaimonia)-ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of emigre Epicurean teachers and their Roman pupils located in the vicinity of Naples ("e;Parthenope"e;). The latent "e;interplay of ideas"e; implicit in the songs of ...