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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... Later , the Rockefeller Foundation gave me a month in the incomparable Villa Serbelloni at Bellagio , where even staring out of the window might be reckoned a study of Virgil's experience ( though I regretfully conclude from the ...
... Later , the Rockefeller Foundation gave me a month in the incomparable Villa Serbelloni at Bellagio , where even staring out of the window might be reckoned a study of Virgil's experience ( though I regretfully conclude from the ...
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... Later Aeneid 564 PART SIX : After Virgil 591 14 The Latin Experience : Virgil and the Poets 593 IS A Roman Experience : Virgil , Augustus , and the Future 631 Appendix : Labor Improbus 678 Index of Passages Cited 685 Index of Greek and ...
... Later Aeneid 564 PART SIX : After Virgil 591 14 The Latin Experience : Virgil and the Poets 593 IS A Roman Experience : Virgil , Augustus , and the Future 631 Appendix : Labor Improbus 678 Index of Passages Cited 685 Index of Greek and ...
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... later to say that although Virgil was invited by Varius to have a relationship with her , he persistently refused . Anyway , it is agreed that in the other aspects of his life he was so pure in speech and thought that at Naples he was ...
... later to say that although Virgil was invited by Varius to have a relationship with her , he persistently refused . Anyway , it is agreed that in the other aspects of his life he was so pure in speech and thought that at Naples he was ...
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... later can match her , not Turnus 15 Examples offered are Juno , Dido in her last phase , Amata's madness , the shrieks of Andromache in the third book and Euryalus ' mother in the ninth , the hysteria of the Trojan women in the fifth ...
... later can match her , not Turnus 15 Examples offered are Juno , Dido in her last phase , Amata's madness , the shrieks of Andromache in the third book and Euryalus ' mother in the ninth , the hysteria of the Trojan women in the fifth ...
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... later , at the cost of historical anachronism and geographical implausibility , he has war- riors from Mantua travelling a vast distance from home to join a small war in central Italy : 11 ille etiam patriis agmen ciet Ocnus ab oris ...
... later , at the cost of historical anachronism and geographical implausibility , he has war- riors from Mantua travelling a vast distance from home to join a small war in central Italy : 11 ille etiam patriis agmen ciet Ocnus ab oris ...
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
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