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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... Ovid's Amores may have been written when he was very young ( the fact that he reduced the work from five books to three for a second edition suggests that he had not shared Virgil's reluctance to expose his work too soon ) . Horace may ...
... Ovid's Amores may have been written when he was very young ( the fact that he reduced the work from five books to three for a second edition suggests that he had not shared Virgil's reluctance to expose his work too soon ) . Horace may ...
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... Ovid , unequivocally heterosexual in his personal poetry , includes some stories of homosexual love in his narratives . 8 7 Ed . 2. I. Possibly the fact that an Alexis is addressed in an epigram attributed to Plato ( Anth . Pal . 7. 100 ) ...
... Ovid , unequivocally heterosexual in his personal poetry , includes some stories of homosexual love in his narratives . 8 7 Ed . 2. I. Possibly the fact that an Alexis is addressed in an epigram attributed to Plato ( Anth . Pal . 7. 100 ) ...
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... Ovid thinks it funny to tell Corinna that he is not carry- ing on an affair with her maidservant because he would not want to have to do with a girl whose back is scarred.26 But though the management of slaves was a standard topic in ...
... Ovid thinks it funny to tell Corinna that he is not carry- ing on an affair with her maidservant because he would not want to have to do with a girl whose back is scarred.26 But though the management of slaves was a standard topic in ...
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... Ovid's gods . The Latin poet is nearer to Offenbach than to Homer ; his gods become figures of fun , because we do not ser- iously believe in them any more , whereas in the Iliad the gods ' frivol- ity and irresponsibility is part of ...
... Ovid's gods . The Latin poet is nearer to Offenbach than to Homer ; his gods become figures of fun , because we do not ser- iously believe in them any more , whereas in the Iliad the gods ' frivol- ity and irresponsibility is part of ...
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... Ovid can be revealingly compared and contrasted with Euripides when he gives Narcissus a setting which in some ways resembles , and probably echoes consciously , Hippolytus ' speech ; once again , the details are designed to figure ...
... Ovid can be revealingly compared and contrasted with Euripides when he gives Narcissus a setting which in some ways resembles , and probably echoes consciously , Hippolytus ' speech ; once again , the details are designed to figure ...
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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