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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... books , but this is not meant to be one of them ; my aim has been , as far as possible , to engage directly with Virgil and the ancient world , and to search out new territory . But where the ground is disputed viii PREFACE.
... books , but this is not meant to be one of them ; my aim has been , as far as possible , to engage directly with Virgil and the ancient world , and to search out new territory . But where the ground is disputed viii PREFACE.
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... ancient gossip had to tell about Virgil was of a homosexual sort , and the sensibility of the Aeneid , as we shall see , does not , to say the least , contradict that impli- cation ' ; ' It is tempting to see in all this ' — the ...
... ancient gossip had to tell about Virgil was of a homosexual sort , and the sensibility of the Aeneid , as we shall see , does not , to say the least , contradict that impli- cation ' ; ' It is tempting to see in all this ' — the ...
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... ancient testimonia are worth- less here , and we are thrown back on Virgil's own words . Now it was common enough for Roman poets to treat homoerotic themes alongside the love of women : Catullus , Horace , and Tibullus all do so . The ...
... ancient testimonia are worth- less here , and we are thrown back on Virgil's own words . Now it was common enough for Roman poets to treat homoerotic themes alongside the love of women : Catullus , Horace , and Tibullus all do so . The ...
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... ancient world . Modern experience shows that there are different kinds of homosexuality . One kind may be called inversion : where a man is attracted to other men more or less as a woman is attracted to men . Another kind is ...
... ancient world . Modern experience shows that there are different kinds of homosexuality . One kind may be called inversion : where a man is attracted to other men more or less as a woman is attracted to men . Another kind is ...
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... ancients themselves seem commonly to have regarded paiderasteia not as an abnormality but as an overflow of normal ... ancient testimonia have a terrible power , even over those who think that they have discounted them . The old search ...
... ancients themselves seem commonly to have regarded paiderasteia not as an abnormality but as an overflow of normal ... ancient testimonia have a terrible power , even over those who think that they have discounted them . The old search ...
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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