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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... Greek Personal Names , and to Hilary O'Shea and her assistants at the Press for their help and support . Some benefits are hard to pin down . I know that I have learnt a great deal from lectures , classes , and conversations over the ...
... Greek Personal Names , and to Hilary O'Shea and her assistants at the Press for their help and support . Some benefits are hard to pin down . I know that I have learnt a great deal from lectures , classes , and conversations over the ...
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... Greek Poetry 3 A Transpadane's Experience 21 73 PART TWO : The 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 ...
... Greek Poetry 3 A Transpadane's Experience 21 73 PART TWO : The 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 ...
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... Greek , Virgil begins the second half of his poem by referring to ' our shores ' : we are Italians.20 And later , at the cost of historical anachronism and geographical implausibility , he has war- riors from Mantua travelling a vast ...
... Greek , Virgil begins the second half of his poem by referring to ' our shores ' : we are Italians.20 And later , at the cost of historical anachronism and geographical implausibility , he has war- riors from Mantua travelling a vast ...
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... Greek poetry , and then the social and cultural circumstances of Italy and Rome . CHAPTER 2 A Reader's Experience : Landscape in Greek Poetry 20 BEFORE VIRGIL.
... Greek poetry , and then the social and cultural circumstances of Italy and Rome . CHAPTER 2 A Reader's Experience : Landscape in Greek Poetry 20 BEFORE VIRGIL.
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... Greek precedent , Virgil should be considered exceptional.2 But it is not the purpose of this chapter either to assert or to deny that he had read all the works discussed in it . Our concern is with the broad picture of the Greeks ...
... Greek precedent , Virgil should be considered exceptional.2 But it is not the purpose of this chapter either to assert or to deny that he had read all the works discussed in it . Our concern is with the broad picture of the Greeks ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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