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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... passion with which he maintained them are not in doubt , but his poetry , in itself , does not offer a basis on which either to support or confute the theory that he was neurotic or manic depressive ; the claim to be made in this book ...
... passion with which he maintained them are not in doubt , but his poetry , in itself , does not offer a basis on which either to support or confute the theory that he was neurotic or manic depressive ; the claim to be made in this book ...
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... passion for beautiful boys ' and the ' gilded bedrooms where sleep kissed the eyelids ' of his favourites ; Lucan ( Graves fancies ) probably decried the great man ' as an effeminate old toady ' ( Lucan , Pharsalia , tr . Graves ...
... passion for beautiful boys ' and the ' gilded bedrooms where sleep kissed the eyelids ' of his favourites ; Lucan ( Graves fancies ) probably decried the great man ' as an effeminate old toady ' ( Lucan , Pharsalia , tr . Graves ...
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... passions for boys , of whom he was fondest of Cebes and Alexander . The latter , whom in the second poem of his Bucolics he calls Alexis , was given to him by Asinius Pollio ; neither of them was without education , and Cebes was ...
... passions for boys , of whom he was fondest of Cebes and Alexander . The latter , whom in the second poem of his Bucolics he calls Alexis , was given to him by Asinius Pollio ; neither of them was without education , and Cebes was ...
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... passion in the poem and the master Iollas ' intransigence.9 The conclusion should be plain . The ancient testimonia are worth- less here , and we are thrown back on Virgil's own words . Now it was common enough for Roman poets to treat ...
... passion in the poem and the master Iollas ' intransigence.9 The conclusion should be plain . The ancient testimonia are worth- less here , and we are thrown back on Virgil's own words . Now it was common enough for Roman poets to treat ...
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... passion for Galatea , but it is tempting to feel that the person whom Corydon most loves is himself . By contrast , every- one feels in the eighth Eclogue that the scene of the boy and the girl in the orchard engages Virgil's highest ...
... passion for Galatea , but it is tempting to feel that the person whom Corydon most loves is himself . By contrast , every- one feels in the eighth Eclogue that the scene of the boy and the girl in the orchard engages Virgil's highest ...
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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