Preferred Citation: Perkell, Christine. The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1989 1989. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft88700889/

 

O

Octavian, 2 , 3 , 14 , 22

See also Caesar, Octavian

optimism and pessimism:

in the Aeneid,3 -5, 6 -7

in the Georgics,3 -4, 14 -16

Orpheus, 25 -26, 177

innovations in Virgil's treatment of, 80 -81

as isolated and regressive figure, 85 -86

as paradigmatic poet, 80

parallel to nightingale, 85

pleasure of, in sorrow and loss, 82 -85

as symbol of failure of art, 81 -83

Orpheus and Eurydice, 48 , 56 , 68 -69, 177 , 185 , 186

Otis, B., 14 , 20 , 33 , 48

 

Preferred Citation: Perkell, Christine. The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1989 1989. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft88700889/