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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... hero more darkly than anything in Virgil . But an intense friendship — between Achilles and Patroclus — is of course at the centre of the Iliad's plot , and the twenty - third book shows Achilles restored to the companionship of his ...
... hero more darkly than anything in Virgil . But an intense friendship — between Achilles and Patroclus — is of course at the centre of the Iliad's plot , and the twenty - third book shows Achilles restored to the companionship of his ...
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Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. heroes who match his calibre , and what is more , the ... hero from his father and his home.30 The sea in this poem is not symbolic but archetypal ; possessed of an intrinsic ...
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. heroes who match his calibre , and what is more , the ... hero from his father and his home.30 The sea in this poem is not symbolic but archetypal ; possessed of an intrinsic ...
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... hero to withdraw and in each case the hero obeys ; but so likewise might a hero have obeyed had Achilles confronted him and allowed him the opportun- ity of retreat . What we do not find in such passages is the feeling that to be in the ...
... hero to withdraw and in each case the hero obeys ; but so likewise might a hero have obeyed had Achilles confronted him and allowed him the opportun- ity of retreat . What we do not find in such passages is the feeling that to be in the ...
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... hero cult , ritual pollution , ghosts , second sight , even adultery ; as we have seen , the idea of the god as a numen informing and vivifying the natural world is one such thing . So too with fertility religion : the springing up of ...
... hero cult , ritual pollution , ghosts , second sight , even adultery ; as we have seen , the idea of the god as a numen informing and vivifying the natural world is one such thing . So too with fertility religion : the springing up of ...
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... hero's encounter with three women . Each is distinctive : the passionate Calypso is in contrast to the cool Circe , a sort of divinized demi - mondaine , and the maidenly simplicity of Nausicaa . And each is found in a setting appropri ...
... hero's encounter with three women . Each is distinctive : the passionate Calypso is in contrast to the cool Circe , a sort of divinized demi - mondaine , and the maidenly simplicity of Nausicaa . And each is found in a setting appropri ...
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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