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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... goddess Juno , the Fury Allecto , and the Harpy Celaeno , the case for a misogynist Virgil amounts to not much more than saying that his women tend to shriek when they are unhappy ( as they do , of course , in Homer ) . Perhaps no one ...
... goddess Juno , the Fury Allecto , and the Harpy Celaeno , the case for a misogynist Virgil amounts to not much more than saying that his women tend to shriek when they are unhappy ( as they do , of course , in Homer ) . Perhaps no one ...
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... goddess at her loom . Around the cave is a wood , not thicket as on Circe's isle , but a mixture of alder , poplar ... goddesses live in houses or palaces , it is significant that she does not : her cave suggests her remoteness , and in ...
... goddess at her loom . Around the cave is a wood , not thicket as on Circe's isle , but a mixture of alder , poplar ... goddesses live in houses or palaces , it is significant that she does not : her cave suggests her remoteness , and in ...
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... goddess , but also because the descrip- tion has some individuality about it . A grove of apple - trees with roses mingled among them , running water and a meadow beyond — that 41 Iris Murdoch , The Unicorn ( London , 1963 ) , ch . 13 ...
... goddess , but also because the descrip- tion has some individuality about it . A grove of apple - trees with roses mingled among them , running water and a meadow beyond — that 41 Iris Murdoch , The Unicorn ( London , 1963 ) , ch . 13 ...
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... goddess comes and pours a divine drink in person , we no longer sense in what order of experience or on what level of reality we are . Once more , then , we find an enhanced feeling for nature coming in association with the presence of ...
... goddess comes and pours a divine drink in person , we no longer sense in what order of experience or on what level of reality we are . Once more , then , we find an enhanced feeling for nature coming in association with the presence of ...
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... goddess . This is not symbolism , however , as the absence of the apples and Sappho's insouciance about the presence of the horses help to show . Aphrodite exists and the grove exists , as in the four- teenth book of the Iliad Zeus and ...
... goddess . This is not symbolism , however , as the absence of the apples and Sappho's insouciance about the presence of the horses help to show . Aphrodite exists and the grove exists , as in the four- teenth book of the Iliad Zeus and ...
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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