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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... Eclogues 129 4 The Neoteric Experience 131 PART THREE : Lucretius 209 S 6 A Conversion Experience : Energy and Delight A Conversion Experience : The Conquest of Death and the Pleasures of Life 211 252 PART FOUR : The Georgics 295 7 An ...
... Eclogues 129 4 The Neoteric Experience 131 PART THREE : Lucretius 209 S 6 A Conversion Experience : Energy and Delight A Conversion Experience : The Conquest of Death and the Pleasures of Life 211 252 PART FOUR : The Georgics 295 7 An ...
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... Eclogues ( Oxford , 1994 ) . R. Coleman , Vergil Eclogues ( Cambridge , 1977 ) . J. Conington and H. Nettleship ( eds . ) , P. Vergili Opera , 3 vols . ( London , 1858–63 ) . P. T. Eden , A Commentary on Virgil , Aeneid VIII ( Leiden ...
... Eclogues ( Oxford , 1994 ) . R. Coleman , Vergil Eclogues ( Cambridge , 1977 ) . J. Conington and H. Nettleship ( eds . ) , P. Vergili Opera , 3 vols . ( London , 1858–63 ) . P. T. Eden , A Commentary on Virgil , Aeneid VIII ( Leiden ...
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... ( Cambridge , 1988 ) . R. D. Williams , Virgil The Eclogues and Georgics ( London , 1979 ) . The Aeneid of Virgil , 2 vols . ( London , 1972–3 ) . PART ONE Before Virgil CHAPTER I Introduction Every man is ABBREVIATIONS X111.
... ( Cambridge , 1988 ) . R. D. Williams , Virgil The Eclogues and Georgics ( London , 1979 ) . The Aeneid of Virgil , 2 vols . ( London , 1972–3 ) . PART ONE Before Virgil CHAPTER I Introduction Every man is ABBREVIATIONS X111.
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... Eclogue , and speculates that Virgil may have been in love with Gallus ( Eclogues , ed . Coleman ( Cambridge , 1977 ) , 109 , 297 ) . ' Virgil . . . may have had homosexual inclinations , ' K. W. Gransden observes , citing the story of ...
... Eclogue , and speculates that Virgil may have been in love with Gallus ( Eclogues , ed . Coleman ( Cambridge , 1977 ) , 109 , 297 ) . ' Virgil . . . may have had homosexual inclinations , ' K. W. Gransden observes , citing the story of ...
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... Eclogues , but it should be enough to say just this : only pre- judgement can take the Eclogues as a whole to be the expression of a naturally homosexual imagination . The deaths of Nisus and Euryalus stir Virgil to this exclamation ...
... Eclogues , but it should be enough to say just this : only pre- judgement can take the Eclogues as a whole to be the expression of a naturally homosexual imagination . The deaths of Nisus and Euryalus stir Virgil to this exclamation ...
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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