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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed, rough edge, pencil annotations on endpapers and first few pages, somewhat stained title page, otherwise good. - CONTENTS: I. VIRGIL�S MAGIC AND HIS LITERARY GOAL -- II. THE PRELUDE TO THE BUCOLICS -- III. EPIC FROM PASTORAL (ECLOGUES II, III, V, IV) -- IV. PASTORAL ALLEGORY AND CONTEMPORARY EVENTS (ECLOGUES VII, VIII, IX, VI, I) -- V. VIRGIL�S ARCADIA (ECLOGUE X) -- VI. WORKS AND DAYS � A CHALLENGE TO HESIOD -- VII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF VINE AND TREE �A CHALLENGE TO HESIOD AND TO LUCRETIUS -- VIII. THE ANIMALS OF THE FARM � A CHALLENGE TO LUCRETIUS AND TO ENNIUS -- IX. THE HUMAN BEES AND THE STORY OF ORPHEUS � A CHALLENGE TO HOMER -- X. VIRGIL AND THE DRAMA -- XI. TRAGEDY FROM ROMANCE -- XII. PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY FROM IMPERIAL ROME -- INDEX.