Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-342) and indexes.

Vergil's farewell to education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' letter to Pythocles / Diskin Clay -- Philosophy's harbor / Francesca Longo Auricchio -- Vergil's epicureanism in his early poems / Régine Chambert -- Consolation in the bucolic mode : the Epicurean cadence of Vergil's first eclogue / Gregson Davis -- A secret garden : Georgics 4.116-148 / W.R. Johnson -- Vergil in the shadow of Vesuvius / Marcello Gigante -- The vocabulary of anger in Philodemus' De Ira and Vergil's Aeneid / Giovanni Indelli -- Anger, Philodemus' Good king, and the Helen episode of Aeneid 2.567-589 : a new proof of authenticity from Herculaneum / Jeffrey Fish -- Philodemus : avocatio and the pathos of distance in Lucretius and Vergil / Frederic M. Schroeder -- Piety in Vergil and Philodemus / Patricia A. Johnston -- Vergil's de pietate : from ehoiae to allegory in Vergil, Philodemus, and Ovid / Dirk Obbink -- Emotions and immortality in philodemus on the gods 3 and the Aeneid / Michael Wigodsky -- Carmen inane : Philodemus' aesthetics and Vergil's artistic vision / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Vergil and music, in diogenes of babylon and philodemus / Daniel Delattre -- Horace's Epistles 1 and Philodemus / David Armstrong -- Varius and Vergil : two pupils of Philodemus in propertius 2.34 / Francis Cairns.

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