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 19
... Troy to a torrent in spate flattening crops and fields and tearing forests headlong.38 Virgil is ready to show us all this , the destruction as well as the charm , because he is fascinated by rivers as they are . We shall dis- cover ...
... Troy to a torrent in spate flattening crops and fields and tearing forests headlong.38 Virgil is ready to show us all this , the destruction as well as the charm , because he is fascinated by rivers as they are . We shall dis- cover ...
Page 32
... the rivers Simois and Scamander , the fig - tree , the springs and washing 36 Att . 2. 15. 3 . 38 Archil . 21 W. 37 Works and Days 640 . 39 Od . 9. 21-6 . troughs , and even Troy , ever existed in the 32 BEFORE VIRGIL.
... the rivers Simois and Scamander , the fig - tree , the springs and washing 36 Att . 2. 15. 3 . 38 Archil . 21 W. 37 Works and Days 640 . 39 Od . 9. 21-6 . troughs , and even Troy , ever existed in the 32 BEFORE VIRGIL.
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... Troy , ever existed in the real world : it is sufficient that they be solid and credible within the poem itself . At this moment in the Odyssey the hero is identifying himself . ' Who are you ? ' Alcinous has asked , and his guest ...
... Troy , ever existed in the real world : it is sufficient that they be solid and credible within the poem itself . At this moment in the Odyssey the hero is identifying himself . ' Who are you ? ' Alcinous has asked , and his guest ...
Page 61
... Troy , where Hector and great Sarpedon lie , where the river Simois has grasped so many valiant bodies and rolled them beneath its waters . Why could Diomedes , bravest of the Greek race , not have killed him ? Thrice and four times ...
... Troy , where Hector and great Sarpedon lie , where the river Simois has grasped so many valiant bodies and rolled them beneath its waters . Why could Diomedes , bravest of the Greek race , not have killed him ? Thrice and four times ...
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... Troy's realm to rise again . ' Sedes ' is the exactly fitting word at this time , rather than ' domus ' or ' patria ' ; the Trojans seek a place to rest , settle , abide . For several reasons , therefore , the first landfall in the poem ...
... Troy's realm to rise again . ' Sedes ' is the exactly fitting word at this time , rather than ' domus ' or ' patria ' ; the Trojans seek a place to rest , settle , abide . For several reasons , therefore , the first landfall in the poem ...
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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