Abstract
AbstractThe concluding chapter draws together the main themes of the preceding chapters. The space of the Ptolemaic empire provides a place and function for bucolic, urban, and even mythic spaces. The bucolic Idylls, as well as some others, speak to the conditions of mobility and rootlessness of the early Hellenistic world, ask what it would mean to be “in place,” and reflect questions of self and other in this multicultural world. The bucolic poems in particular raise the question of readers’ relations to fictional worlds. The desire they arouse in the reader for an always out-of-reach natural world of fullness and presence is the counterpart of the herdsmen’s erotic desire. This analogy offers perspective on the question of why one would want to read bucolic poetry in antiquity or today and how readers might negotiate the status differences between themselves and herdsmen.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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