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 9
... contrast , every- one feels in the eighth Eclogue that the scene of the boy and the girl in the orchard engages Virgil's highest imaginative powers . " This too is made out of Theocritus , yet the picture of lost childhood idyll and the ...
... contrast , every- one feels in the eighth Eclogue that the scene of the boy and the girl in the orchard engages Virgil's highest imaginative powers . " This too is made out of Theocritus , yet the picture of lost childhood idyll and the ...
Page 17
... contrast . The only time that we see Aeneas in his domestic setting is when he and his family must abandon it for ever.29 He and Dido may be lovers , but they are not friends . He has indeed had one intimate friendship , it is implied ...
... contrast . The only time that we see Aeneas in his domestic setting is when he and his family must abandon it for ever.29 He and Dido may be lovers , but they are not friends . He has indeed had one intimate friendship , it is implied ...
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... contrast , for the significance of the harmony lies in the very fact that human effort and natural forces are things distinct . If Virgil associates rivers with culture and civility , he associates them 32 Eur . Iph . Taur . 1193 ...
... contrast , for the significance of the harmony lies in the very fact that human effort and natural forces are things distinct . If Virgil associates rivers with culture and civility , he associates them 32 Eur . Iph . Taur . 1193 ...
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... contrast with these dreadful scenes . Similarly , in the Aeneid , when the Trojans first catch sight of the Tiber , it is a swirling , silty stream , bursting out into the sea from amid the enveloping forest ; and when Tiber in the ...
... contrast with these dreadful scenes . Similarly , in the Aeneid , when the Trojans first catch sight of the Tiber , it is a swirling , silty stream , bursting out into the sea from amid the enveloping forest ; and when Tiber in the ...
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... contrast to the dis- order of Odysseus ' palace , infested by the suitors . That the monster 20 18 See below , pp . 245 f . , 332 f . 19 Od . 14. 5 ff . 20 Od . 19. 109-14 . Polyphemus does not inhabit the well - watered meadows down 28 ...
... contrast to the dis- order of Odysseus ' palace , infested by the suitors . That the monster 20 18 See below , pp . 245 f . , 332 f . 19 Od . 14. 5 ff . 20 Od . 19. 109-14 . Polyphemus does not inhabit the well - watered meadows down 28 ...
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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Achilles adjective Aeneas Aeneid Anchises ancient Arcadia Ascanius atque Augustan Augustus Caesar Callimachus Carm Catullus Cicero colour comes context contrast Creusa death describes Dido distinctive divine earth echoes Eclogues emotional Ennius epic Epicurus Evander experience father Faunus feel force Georgics glory goddess gods golden age Greek hero Homer Horace human idea Iliad imagination Italian Italy Jupiter land landscape later Latin Latium laus Italiae lines literary look Lucr Lucretius meaning metaphor moral nature Nymphs Odyssey once Ovid Pallas paradox passage pastoral pathetic fallacy patriotic perhaps phrase poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry praise Propertius quae rerum river Roman Rome scene seems seen sense sentence significance simile speech spirit story suggests tells theme Theocritus things Tiber Tiberinus Tibullus tion tone Transpadane Trojans Troy Turnus Venus verse Virgil vision whole woods words