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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... describe is part of the history of European thought and feeling , and has been permanent in its effect ; and thus I hope too that the enquiry may tell us some- thing about ourselves . In terms of method again , I have tried to com- bine ...
... describe is part of the history of European thought and feeling , and has been permanent in its effect ; and thus I hope too that the enquiry may tell us some- thing about ourselves . In terms of method again , I have tried to com- bine ...
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... describes Virgil's ' notorious passion for beautiful boys ' and the ' gilded bedrooms where sleep kissed the eyelids ' of his favourites ; Lucan ( Graves fancies ) probably decried the great man ' as an effeminate old toady ' ( Lucan ...
... describes Virgil's ' notorious passion for beautiful boys ' and the ' gilded bedrooms where sleep kissed the eyelids ' of his favourites ; Lucan ( Graves fancies ) probably decried the great man ' as an effeminate old toady ' ( Lucan ...
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... describing the dying Euryalus and the dead Pallas , even though the first of these is modelled on Homer and the second also owes something to Catullus . Such slight nuances are perhaps the best evidence there is for homoeroticism in ...
... describing the dying Euryalus and the dead Pallas , even though the first of these is modelled on Homer and the second also owes something to Catullus . Such slight nuances are perhaps the best evidence there is for homoeroticism in ...
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... describing the city's polity and situation , any reader is likely to wonder why . Of course , most readers will know ... describe it briefly , indicating its distinctive characteristics . It is indeed a sphragis , an individualized mark ...
... describing the city's polity and situation , any reader is likely to wonder why . Of course , most readers will know ... describe it briefly , indicating its distinctive characteristics . It is indeed a sphragis , an individualized mark ...
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... describes Italian rivers , Virgil makes them part of his imaginative , humanized land- scape , inspirers of patriotic sentiment and sense of place . He relates them to the works of man : Vesta preserves ' Tuscan Tiber and the Roman ...
... describes Italian rivers , Virgil makes them part of his imaginative , humanized land- scape , inspirers of patriotic sentiment and sense of place . He relates them to the works of man : Vesta preserves ' Tuscan Tiber and the Roman ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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