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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... Homer , argues for Lucretius and Virgil as the promoters of a revolution in sensibility , takes the tale on to Virgil's younger contemporaries , and offers a few glimpses fur- ther forward still . The transformation which I describe is ...
... Homer , argues for Lucretius and Virgil as the promoters of a revolution in sensibility , takes the tale on to Virgil's younger contemporaries , and offers a few glimpses fur- ther forward still . The transformation which I describe is ...
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... the appendix was published in Classical Quarterly in 1993 ; one or two sentences have found their way into my little book Classical Epic : Homer and Virgil ( 1992 ) . This book has been written , suitably perhaps , in PREFACE ix.
... the appendix was published in Classical Quarterly in 1993 ; one or two sentences have found their way into my little book Classical Epic : Homer and Virgil ( 1992 ) . This book has been written , suitably perhaps , in PREFACE ix.
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... Homer's Nausicaa presents her as young and innocent . When she fondles Ascanius , and when her first great denunciation collapses into a ten- der , plaintive domesticity , we see her maternal aspect . We see the great queen and the ...
... Homer's Nausicaa presents her as young and innocent . When she fondles Ascanius , and when her first great denunciation collapses into a ten- der , plaintive domesticity , we see her maternal aspect . We see the great queen and the ...
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... Homer ) . Perhaps no one in the Aeneid is more lovingly treated than Creusa ( unless it be Dido in the sixth book ) . As we shall see , the scene of her farewell deserves to rank with the Odyssey and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in ...
... Homer ) . Perhaps no one in the Aeneid is more lovingly treated than Creusa ( unless it be Dido in the sixth book ) . As we shall see , the scene of her farewell deserves to rank with the Odyssey and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in ...
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... Homer and the second also owes something to Catullus . Such slight nuances are perhaps the best evidence there is for homoeroticism in Virgil . The ancient testimonia have a terrible power , even over those who think that they have ...
... Homer and the second also owes something to Catullus . Such slight nuances are perhaps the best evidence there is for homoeroticism in Virgil . The ancient testimonia have a terrible power , even over those who think that they have ...
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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