Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil

Overturning centuries of scholarship that imagined life in the Roman world as happening only in society, Aaron J. Kachuck delivers a revelatory new perspective: ancient Rome not only possessed a vibrant sense of solitude, but its solitary sphere also lies behind its greatest masterpieces, from Cicero's philosophy to the life's works of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius.

List of contents

• Dedication


• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Introduction: The Solitary Sphere


• I. Cicero Speaking with Solitudes


• II. Virgil's Eclogues as Meditation


• III. Virgil's Solitary Spheres


• IV. Horace and the Slip to Solitudes


• V. Love Elegy, Propertius, and Soliloquy


• Conclusion: Imperium and the Individual


• Bibliography


• Notes

About the author

Aaron J. Kachuck is a Research Fellow in Latin and Neo-Latin Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

Summary

Overturning centuries of scholarship that imagined life in the Roman world as happening only in society, Aaron J. Kachuck delivers a revelatory new perspective: ancient Rome not only possessed a vibrant sense of solitude, but its solitary sphere also lies behind its greatest masterpieces, from Cicero's philosophy to the life's works of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius.

Additional text

Aaron Kachuck aims to introduce a new sphere into our discussions of Roman life and literature in the age of Vergil, broadly conceived; in addition to the public and private spheres, he argues, we need to do full justice to a third one - the solitary sphere.

Product details

• Authors: Kachuck , Aaron J. Kachuck, Aaron J. (Junior Research Fellow in Latin Kachuck, Aaron J. (Junior Research Fellow in Latin and Neo-Latin Literature Kachuck
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780197579046
• ISBN: 978-0-19-757904-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts