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 12
... Iliad as repellent as Mezentius , tyrant and tor- turer . And in fact most of Virgil's unpleasant females belong to the supernatural order : without the goddess Juno , the Fury Allecto , and the Harpy Celaeno , the case for a misogynist ...
... Iliad as repellent as Mezentius , tyrant and tor- turer . And in fact most of Virgil's unpleasant females belong to the supernatural order : without the goddess Juno , the Fury Allecto , and the Harpy Celaeno , the case for a misogynist ...
Page 14
... Iliad and Odyssey never indicate that the poet is a 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 ...
... Iliad and Odyssey never indicate that the poet is a 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 ...
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... Iliad may be said to portray the ultimate loneliness of the hero more darkly than anything in Virgil . But an intense friendship — between Achilles and Patroclus — is of course at the centre of the Iliad's plot , and the twenty - third ...
... Iliad may be said to portray the ultimate loneliness of the hero more darkly than anything in Virgil . But an intense friendship — between Achilles and Patroclus — is of course at the centre of the Iliad's plot , and the twenty - third ...
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... Iliad , are mysteriously apart , and in fact not seen in the same place at all until the tenth book . Zeus and Hera , despite their differences , despite their divinity , do feel like a human husband and wife , as Jupiter and Juno do ...
... Iliad , are mysteriously apart , and in fact not seen in the same place at all until the tenth book . Zeus and Hera , despite their differences , despite their divinity , do feel like a human husband and wife , as Jupiter and Juno do ...
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... Iliad is of such a kind that the term ' pathetic fallacy ' no longer seems appropriate . Rather , it presupposes a way of thinking and speak- ing in which the pathetic fallacy plays a negligible part . Ruskin distinguished a second ...
... Iliad is of such a kind that the term ' pathetic fallacy ' no longer seems appropriate . Rather , it presupposes a way of thinking and speak- ing in which the pathetic fallacy plays a negligible part . Ruskin distinguished a second ...
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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