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 16
... divine mother , as Aeneas will be . There is a sense in which the Iliad may be said to portray the ultimate loneliness of the hero more darkly than anything in Virgil . But an intense friendship — between Achilles and Patroclus — is of ...
... divine mother , as Aeneas will be . There is a sense in which the Iliad may be said to portray the ultimate loneliness of the hero more darkly than anything in Virgil . But an intense friendship — between Achilles and Patroclus — is of ...
Page 25
... divine . Consider Poseidon's journey in the thirteenth book of the Iliad : ' He climbed on to his chariot , and went his way driving over the waves . And the beasts , gathering from their lairs on every side , frolicked at his presence ...
... divine . Consider Poseidon's journey in the thirteenth book of the Iliad : ' He climbed on to his chariot , and went his way driving over the waves . And the beasts , gathering from their lairs on every side , frolicked at his presence ...
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... divine numen . To call this ' pathetic fallacy ' is to mis- take its meaning , for Homer means strongly what he says . Indeed , his conception derives its force from the absence of the pathetic fallacy . In a modern poet a joyful sea ...
... divine numen . To call this ' pathetic fallacy ' is to mis- take its meaning , for Homer means strongly what he says . Indeed , his conception derives its force from the absence of the pathetic fallacy . In a modern poet a joyful sea ...
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... divine glory ; it is what lifts them so high above the wretched mortals who fight and die upon the Trojan plain . It is because the gods are so much stronger than men that Hera can afford to deceive Zeus and Zeus afford to be deceived ...
... divine glory ; it is what lifts them so high above the wretched mortals who fight and die upon the Trojan plain . It is because the gods are so much stronger than men that Hera can afford to deceive Zeus and Zeus afford to be deceived ...
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... divine marriage has become a partially or wholly figurative way of conveying nature's emotional effect upon us . But for Homer neither do the gods represent the force of nature , nor does nature ornament the gods . Both gods and plants ...
... divine marriage has become a partially or wholly figurative way of conveying nature's emotional effect upon us . But for Homer neither do the gods represent the force of nature , nor does nature ornament the gods . Both gods and plants ...
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
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