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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Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. heroes who match his calibre , and what is more , the ... natural element in the Iliad's landscape : Achilles weeps by the edge of the grey sea , gazing upon the boundless deep ...
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. heroes who match his calibre , and what is more , the ... 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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Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. down the centuries.32 But surprisingly , there is no echo of these notes in Virgil . We first meet Aeneas in mid - ocean , in a storm , the sea his enemy ; and the first ...
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. down the centuries.32 But surprisingly , there is no echo of these notes in Virgil . We first meet Aeneas in mid - ocean , in a storm , the sea his enemy ; and the first ...
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Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. He calls the sea ' unharvested ' , ' full of fish ' , ' wine - dark ' ; but ' every one of these epithets is descriptive of pure physical nature ' . Now as a matter of strict ...
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. He calls the sea ' unharvested ' , ' full of fish ' , ' wine - dark ' ; but ' every one of these epithets is descriptive of pure physical nature ' . Now as a matter of strict ...
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... natural order ; here we feel the presence of the super- natural , a change in the quality of experience . And so with Poseidon's epiphany . The drama of the scene is that nature is not normally like this ; the salt water comes alive and ...
... natural order ; here we feel the presence of the super- natural , a change in the quality of experience . And so with Poseidon's epiphany . The drama of the scene is that nature is not normally like this ; the salt water comes alive and ...
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Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. The Sky is the male principle , the Earth the female , and the rain is the life - giving semen which impregnates the ground that it may bring forth crops and flowers ...
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. The Sky is the male principle , the Earth the female , and the rain is the life - giving semen which impregnates the ground that it may bring forth crops and flowers ...
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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