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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... meaning of the verse through a close study of the text , an enquiry into the details of language and sense ( a good deal that is written about Latin poetry would apply equally if the words were prose ) but also into the larger form ...
... meaning of the verse through a close study of the text , an enquiry into the details of language and sense ( a good deal that is written about Latin poetry would apply equally if the words were prose ) but also into the larger form ...
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... meaning a park or pleasure ground . It was then adopted by the Septuagint for Adam and Eve's home in Eden ; for they too begin in a garden , not in a place where nature is left to itself . 8 In later antiquity the land was to be better ...
... meaning a park or pleasure ground . It was then adopted by the Septuagint for Adam and Eve's home in Eden ; for they too begin in a garden , not in a place where nature is left to itself . 8 In later antiquity the land was to be better ...
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... meaning , for Homer means strongly what he says . Indeed , his conception derives its force from the absence of the pathetic fallacy . In a modern poet a joyful sea might not seem much : in its Homeric context it is spectacular , for it ...
... meaning , for Homer means strongly what he says . Indeed , his conception derives its force from the absence of the pathetic fallacy . In a modern poet a joyful sea might not seem much : in its Homeric context it is spectacular , for it ...
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... meaning at this point is disputed ) .39 The passage has been a battleground for those who have sought to reconcile it with the actual geography of the Ionian isles or who have wanted to know whether Odysseus ' home is to be identified ...
... meaning at this point is disputed ) .39 The passage has been a battleground for those who have sought to reconcile it with the actual geography of the Ionian isles or who have wanted to know whether Odysseus ' home is to be identified ...
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... meaning of ololugon is not certain : it is probably a tree frog , but may be a kind of dove ( see Gow's exhaustive note ad loc . ) . 88 Il . 21. 261 . lines tell because the details accumulate , so that the 52 BEFORE VIRGIL.
... meaning of ololugon is not certain : it is probably a tree frog , but may be a kind of dove ( see Gow's exhaustive note ad loc . ) . 88 Il . 21. 261 . lines tell because the details accumulate , so that the 52 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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