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
... metaphor and personification , but in strictly factual terms . " The poem men- tions other elements of the Trojan scene — the fig tree , the rivers Simois and Scamander — because they are features of the battlefield , and not because ...
... metaphor and personification , but in strictly factual terms . " The poem men- tions other elements of the Trojan scene — the fig tree , the rivers Simois and Scamander — because they are features of the battlefield , and not because ...
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... metaphor , parable , or allegory . Zeus and Hera are not symbols , but two people making love ; immortal people , but people none the less . The flowers are not symbolical either , nor are they poetic decoration , embroidered on to the ...
... metaphor , parable , or allegory . Zeus and Hera are not symbols , but two people making love ; immortal people , but people none the less . The flowers are not symbolical either , nor are they poetic decoration , embroidered on to the ...
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... metaphor , his signature or fingerprint . Once the co - ordinates have placed Odysseus , Homer no longer seems much further interested in a distinctive geography ; true , not every island known to the Greeks had a wooded hill , but the ...
... metaphor , his signature or fingerprint . Once the co - ordinates have placed Odysseus , Homer no longer seems much further interested in a distinctive geography ; true , not every island known to the Greeks had a wooded hill , but the ...
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... can be felt as a part of Athens ' own festival celebrations . 59 Eum . 993 f . , 851 f . ( ges tesd ' erasthessesthe , a metaphor drawn from sexual love ) . universe itself . Within this wholeness nature and culture , 42 BEFORE VIRGIL.
... can be felt as a part of Athens ' own festival celebrations . 59 Eum . 993 f . , 851 f . ( ges tesd ' erasthessesthe , a metaphor drawn from sexual love ) . universe itself . Within this wholeness nature and culture , 42 BEFORE VIRGIL.
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... metaphors of ' scenes ' , ' depictions ' and ' pictures ' when we talk about literature , it is a great mistake to sup- pose that literary description should try to mimic the possibilities of pictorial art . When we look at a painting ...
... metaphors of ' scenes ' , ' depictions ' and ' pictures ' when we talk about literature , it is a great mistake to sup- pose that literary description should try to mimic the possibilities of pictorial art . When we look at a painting ...
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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