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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... land for a place which was very distant and yet obscurely , deeply part of my past . Later , the Rockefeller Foundation gave me a month in the incomparable Villa Serbelloni at Bellagio , where even staring out of the window might be ...
... land for a place which was very distant and yet obscurely , deeply part of my past . Later , the Rockefeller Foundation gave me a month in the incomparable Villa Serbelloni at Bellagio , where even staring out of the window might be ...
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... Land and Nation 341 PART FIVE : The Aeneid 387 9 A Trojan's Experience : The Wanderings of Aeneas 389 10 Beyond Experience : The Underworld 445 II A Trojan in Italy : Latinus ' Kingdom 463 12 A Trojan in Italy : Evander's Kingdom SIS 13 ...
... Land and Nation 341 PART FIVE : The Aeneid 387 9 A Trojan's Experience : The Wanderings of Aeneas 389 10 Beyond Experience : The Underworld 445 II A Trojan in Italy : Latinus ' Kingdom 463 12 A Trojan in Italy : Evander's Kingdom SIS 13 ...
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... land , each with its own shape and pattern , its distinct configura- tion of rock and inlet , yet all ruffled by the same breezes , fretted by the same unceasing seas . The historian is a species of surveyor or cartographer ; his task ...
... land , each with its own shape and pattern , its distinct configura- tion of rock and inlet , yet all ruffled by the same breezes , fretted by the same unceasing seas . The historian is a species of surveyor or cartographer ; his task ...
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... land and yet not part of the land . On the one hand , a Roman might worship Tiber among the guardians of the state or city , as he might worship Romulus , Vesta , or the Indigites . As he names and describes Italian rivers , Virgil ...
... land and yet not part of the land . On the one hand , a Roman might worship Tiber among the guardians of the state or city , as he might worship Romulus , Vesta , or the Indigites . As he names and describes Italian rivers , Virgil ...
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... land of the Phaeacians is half a fairyland , and this is a fairytale garden , but that makes it all the more revealing , for it is the ne plus ultra of what a garden might be in paradise . Fruits grow there all the year round : the poet ...
... land of the Phaeacians is half a fairyland , and this is a fairytale garden , but that makes it all the more revealing , for it is the ne plus ultra of what a garden might be in paradise . Fruits grow there all the year round : the poet ...
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