This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Eclogues written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from several different countries. The contributions are representative of recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, with some discussing general issues raised by the work and others treating important individual poems and passages. The editor's Introduction places the essays in their context. A conspectus of contemporary Eclogues criticism, the book will be helpful to students who are encountering the poems for the first time - all Latin has been translated - and will also serve as a reference work for more seasoned scholars.

Katharina Volk is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Columbia University.

• 1: Katharina Volk: Introduction: scholarly approaches to the Eclogues since 1970


• 2: Ernst A. Schmidt: Arcadia: modern occident and classical antiquity


• 3: R. G. M. Nisbet: The style of Vergil's Eclogues


• 4: Lorenz Rumpf: Bucolic nomina in Vergil and Theocritus: on the poetic technique of Vergil's Eclogues


• 5: Thomas K. Hubbard: Allusive artistry and Vergil's revisionary program: Eclogues 1-3


• 6: Christine G. Perkell: On Eclogue 1.79-83


• 7: John Henderson: Vergil's third Eclogue: how do you keep an idiot in suspense?


• 8: R. G. M. Nisbet: Vergil's fourth Eclogue: Easterners and Westerners


• 9: David O. Ross, Jr: The sixth Eclogue: Vergil's poetic genealogy


• 10: Gian Biagio Conte: An interpretation of the tenth Eclogue


• 11: Seamus Heaney: Eclogues in extremis: on the staying power of pastoral