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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... Virgil's reluctance to expose his work too soon ) . Horace may have imitated his older friend's reticence ; Maecenas ' patience was exemplary . course the list of Virgil's early works becomes extensive . INTRODUCTION S.
... Virgil's reluctance to expose his work too soon ) . Horace may have imitated his older friend's reticence ; Maecenas ' patience was exemplary . course the list of Virgil's early works becomes extensive . INTRODUCTION S.
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... Horace , and Tibullus all do so . The fact that homosexual love appears in Virgil is in itself entirely unsurprising ; even Ovid , unequivocally heterosexual in his personal poetry , includes some stories of homosexual love in his ...
... Horace , and Tibullus all do so . The fact that homosexual love appears in Virgil is in itself entirely unsurprising ; even Ovid , unequivocally heterosexual in his personal poetry , includes some stories of homosexual love in his ...
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... Horace , and Tibullus may or may not be wholly fictitious ( each case must be judged individually ) , but such at least is the social reality behind them . And this is the society from which Virgil came . It does seem right to find a ...
... Horace , and Tibullus may or may not be wholly fictitious ( each case must be judged individually ) , but such at least is the social reality behind them . And this is the society from which Virgil came . It does seem right to find a ...
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... Horace and Virgil are as significant as the likenesses . Horace , uniquely among ancient writers , is so specific that we ought to be able to pick him out at an identity parade . Earlier , he had decided that the great merit of Lucilius ...
... Horace and Virgil are as significant as the likenesses . Horace , uniquely among ancient writers , is so specific that we ought to be able to pick him out at an identity parade . Earlier , he had decided that the great merit of Lucilius ...
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... Horace , though he was a freedman's son . And there may be broader , more nebulous areas in which idio- syncrasy comes through , in a fashion which may seem neither intended nor unintended — where an individual cast of mind or temper ...
... Horace , though he was a freedman's son . And there may be broader , more nebulous areas in which idio- syncrasy comes through , in a fashion which may seem neither intended nor unintended — where an individual cast of mind or temper ...
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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