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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... Death and the Pleasures of Life 211 252 PART FOUR : The Georgics 295 7 An Italian's Experience : Earth and Country 297 8 An Italian's Experience : Land and Nation 341 PART FIVE : The Aeneid 387 9 A Trojan's Experience : The Wanderings ...
... Death and the Pleasures of Life 211 252 PART FOUR : The Georgics 295 7 An Italian's Experience : Earth and Country 297 8 An Italian's Experience : Land and Nation 341 PART FIVE : The Aeneid 387 9 A Trojan's Experience : The Wanderings ...
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... deaths of the last four books . The Battle of Actium should have been an embarrassment , expected by Caesar Augustus from his poets , but out of place in a mytho- logical epic ; yet Virgil can make it the culmination of his keenly ...
... deaths of the last four books . The Battle of Actium should have been an embarrassment , expected by Caesar Augustus from his poets , but out of place in a mytho- logical epic ; yet Virgil can make it the culmination of his keenly ...
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... look of melting love , ' softer than sleep or death ' ( 3. 61 f . ) , as though Tristan had called in at archaic Sparta . particularity or exactness of perception ; Alcman gives an account LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY 33.
... look of melting love , ' softer than sleep or death ' ( 3. 61 f . ) , as though Tristan had called in at archaic Sparta . particularity or exactness of perception ; Alcman gives an account LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY 33.
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... death.54 But in this case religious is combined with patriotic senti- ment . Oedipus will be buried here and become the object of a hero- cult ; it is vital that his bones should lie in Attica , not in his native soil of Thebes , that ...
... death.54 But in this case religious is combined with patriotic senti- ment . Oedipus will be buried here and become the object of a hero- cult ; it is vital that his bones should lie in Attica , not in his native soil of Thebes , that ...
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... which drew Virgil's attention . Here is elaborated the idea that nature sympathizes with the dead man . For example : 95 94 Europa 115-24 . 95 Ep . Bion . 81-5 . At your death the trees have shed their fruit and LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY ...
... which drew Virgil's attention . Here is elaborated the idea that nature sympathizes with the dead man . For example : 95 94 Europa 115-24 . 95 Ep . Bion . 81-5 . At your death the trees have shed their fruit and LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY ...
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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