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 17
... human husband and wife , as Jupiter and Juno do not . This sense of solit- ariness does not , in most places , seem like Virgil's conscious design ; but he followed his star , and this is where it led him . His seeking for salvation ...
... human husband and wife , as Jupiter and Juno do not . This sense of solit- ariness does not , in most places , seem like Virgil's conscious design ; but he followed his star , and this is where it led him . His seeking for salvation ...
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... human institutions . Catullus , another son of the Po basin , put into his longest poem the most delectable descriptions of the sea in Latin literature ; and as minor a figure as Valerius Flaccus could beautifully evoke the shadows ...
... human institutions . Catullus , another son of the Po basin , put into his longest poem the most delectable descriptions of the sea in Latin literature ; and as minor a figure as Valerius Flaccus could beautifully evoke the shadows ...
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... human vice and virtue : in the land of a good king the black earth bears wheat and barley , the trees are heavy with fruit , flocks bring forth young in abundance , the sea offers fish in plenty , and the people prosper . Appropriately ...
... human vice and virtue : in the land of a good king the black earth bears wheat and barley , the trees are heavy with fruit , flocks bring forth young in abundance , the sea offers fish in plenty , and the people prosper . Appropriately ...
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... human mood within a natural setting the poem is very refined , and it can seem in some ways remarkably modern ; there is indeed nothing else in archaic poetry quite like it . But it remains within the early Greek's conventional idea of ...
... human mood within a natural setting the poem is very refined , and it can seem in some ways remarkably modern ; there is indeed nothing else in archaic poetry quite like it . But it remains within the early Greek's conventional idea of ...
Page 39
... human or creaturely pleasure with nature . Euripides is both like and unlike Homer . The impassioned engage- ment , the feeling for the wild , the sense of communion with nature may all seem new , and more like modern or perhaps ...
... human or creaturely pleasure with nature . Euripides is both like and unlike Homer . The impassioned engage- ment , the feeling for the wild , the sense of communion with nature may all seem new , and more like modern or perhaps ...
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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