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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... Landscape in Greek Poetry 3 A Transpadane's Experience 21 73 PART TWO : The Eclogues 129 4 The Neoteric Experience 131 PART THREE : Lucretius 209 S 6 A Conversion Experience : Energy and Delight A Conversion Experience : The Conquest of ...
... Landscape in Greek Poetry 3 A Transpadane's Experience 21 73 PART TWO : The Eclogues 129 4 The Neoteric Experience 131 PART THREE : Lucretius 209 S 6 A Conversion Experience : Energy and Delight A Conversion Experience : The Conquest of ...
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... landscape and antiquity of Italy . On the other hand , we cannot surmise what he felt on some very large issues : there is no guessing to what extent or in what sense , if any , he believed in the gods . All we can say is that within ...
... landscape and antiquity of Italy . On the other hand , we cannot surmise what he felt on some very large issues : there is no guessing to what extent or in what sense , if any , he believed in the gods . All we can say is that within ...
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... landscape itself : he is impassioned by rivers , and little attracted by the sea . The sea is the most evocative natural element in the Iliad's landscape : Achilles weeps by the edge of the grey sea , gazing upon the boundless deep ...
... landscape itself : he is impassioned by rivers , and little attracted by the sea . The sea is the most evocative natural element in the Iliad's landscape : Achilles weeps by the edge of the grey sea , gazing upon the boundless deep ...
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... landscape in the poem is a harbour which offers safety from the waves . The poem's plot requires the Trojans to plough vast tracts of ocean , but unlike his model , the Odyssey , Virgil does not at all exploit the romance of the sea ...
... landscape in the poem is a harbour which offers safety from the waves . The poem's plot requires the Trojans to plough vast tracts of ocean , but unlike his model , the Odyssey , Virgil does not at all exploit the romance of the sea ...
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... landscape in Greek poetry , and then the social and cultural circumstances of Italy and Rome . CHAPTER 2 A Reader's Experience : Landscape in Greek Poetry 20 BEFORE VIRGIL.
... landscape in Greek poetry , and then the social and cultural circumstances of Italy and Rome . CHAPTER 2 A Reader's Experience : Landscape in Greek Poetry 20 BEFORE VIRGIL.
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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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