Virgil's Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and PlacesThis book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves. |
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Page 10
... Dido's ruin in the first . If we forget this , it is because his story is so far inferior to hers . This brings us back to subjective considerations , which have their proper place . There will be enough praise of Virgil to follow , and ...
... Dido's ruin in the first . If we forget this , it is because his story is so far inferior to hers . This brings us back to subjective considerations , which have their proper place . There will be enough praise of Virgil to follow , and ...
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... Dido's story to tell us how impressive it was : how painfully superfluous we should have found that . We are bound to agree that Dido's story has engaged Virgil's deepest imagination as Nisus ' has not : across two thousand years how ...
... Dido's story to tell us how impressive it was : how painfully superfluous we should have found that . We are bound to agree that Dido's story has engaged Virgil's deepest imagination as Nisus ' has not : across two thousand years how ...
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... Dido is portrayed . Virgil is interested in a range of female types : naturally he depicts unpleasant as well as pleasant ones . He does the same with men too : there is no one in the Iliad as repellent as Mezentius , tyrant and tor ...
... Dido is portrayed . Virgil is interested in a range of female types : naturally he depicts unpleasant as well as pleasant ones . He does the same with men too : there is no one in the Iliad as repellent as Mezentius , tyrant and tor ...
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... Dido may be lovers , but they are not friends . He has indeed had one intimate friendship , it is implied , and that was with Creusa ; but we see only its loss . As for friendship with another man , that is not to be thought of : the ...
... Dido may be lovers , but they are not friends . He has indeed had one intimate friendship , it is implied , and that was with Creusa ; but we see only its loss . As for friendship with another man , that is not to be thought of : the ...
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... Dido ; the nymphs who dwell near the fiord where the Trojans make land- fall in north Africa ; even the nymphs who shall bear flowers to Corydon's beloved Alexis ; all , in one way or another , modify the landscape or the atmosphere ...
... Dido ; the nymphs who dwell near the fiord where the Trojans make land- fall in north Africa ; even the nymphs who shall bear flowers to Corydon's beloved Alexis ; all , in one way or another , modify the landscape or the atmosphere ...
Contents
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A Transpadanes Experience | 73 |
The Neoteric Experience | 131 |
Energy and Delight | 211 |
The Conquest of Death | 252 |
Earth and Country | 297 |
Land and Nation | 341 |
The Wanderings of Aeneas | 389 |
Latinus Kingdom | 463 |
Evanders Kingdom | 515 |
The Later Aeneid | 564 |
Virgil and the Poets | 593 |
Virgil Augustus and the Future | 631 |
Labor Improbus | 678 |
Index of Passages Cited | 685 |
Index of Greek and Latin Words | 704 |
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Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns No preview available - 1998 |
Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns No preview available - 1998 |
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Achilles adjective Aeneas Aeneid Anchises ancient Arcadia Ascanius atque Augustan Augustus Caesar Callimachus Carm Catullus Cicero colour comes context contrast Creusa death describes Dido distinctive divine earth echoes Eclogues emotional Ennius epic Epicurus Evander experience father Faunus feel force Georgics glory goddess gods golden age Greek hero Homer Horace human idea Iliad imagination Italian Italy Jupiter land landscape later Latin Latium laus Italiae lines literary look Lucr Lucretius meaning metaphor moral nature Nymphs Odyssey once Ovid Pallas paradox passage pastoral pathetic fallacy patriotic perhaps phrase poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry praise Propertius quae rerum river Roman Rome scene seems seen sense sentence significance simile speech spirit story suggests tells theme Theocritus things Tiber Tiberinus Tibullus tion tone Transpadane Trojans Troy Turnus Venus verse Virgil vision whole woods words