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 18
... patriotic sentiment and sense of place . He relates them to the works of man : Vesta preserves ' Tuscan Tiber and the Roman Palatine ' ; Tiber himself tells Aeneas that he waters lofty cities ; the glory of Italy is its towns built on ...
... patriotic sentiment and sense of place . He relates them to the works of man : Vesta preserves ' Tuscan Tiber and the Roman Palatine ' ; Tiber himself tells Aeneas that he waters lofty cities ; the glory of Italy is its towns built on ...
Page 19
... did not die until 23 Bc , but it becomes a pivot 35 Geo . I. 311 ff . 36 Geo . I. 481-3 . 37 Aen . 7. 30-2 ; 8. 36 ff . , 86 ff . 38 Aen . 2. 305-8 . in the poem's development , chastening the loud patriotism that INTRODUCTION 19.
... did not die until 23 Bc , but it becomes a pivot 35 Geo . I. 311 ff . 36 Geo . I. 481-3 . 37 Aen . 7. 30-2 ; 8. 36 ff . , 86 ff . 38 Aen . 2. 305-8 . in the poem's development , chastening the loud patriotism that INTRODUCTION 19.
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... patriotism that has preceded it and foreshadowing the young deaths of the last four books . The Battle of Actium should have been an embarrassment , expected by Caesar Augustus from his poets , but out of place in a mytho- logical epic ...
... patriotism that has preceded it and foreshadowing the young deaths of the last four books . The Battle of Actium should have been an embarrassment , expected by Caesar Augustus from his poets , but out of place in a mytho- logical epic ...
Page 40
... patriotic senti- ment . Oedipus will be buried here and become the object of a hero- cult ; it is vital that his bones should lie in Attica , not in his native soil of Thebes , that they may give strength to the land . The chorus begin ...
... patriotic senti- ment . Oedipus will be buried here and become the object of a hero- cult ; it is vital that his bones should lie in Attica , not in his native soil of Thebes , that they may give strength to the land . The chorus begin ...
Page 41
... patriotic sentiment with perception of the natural scene which Virgil will achieve . He has described a beautiful place and he has described a place of national cult , but the two things do not really come together . Despite the divine ...
... patriotic sentiment with perception of the natural scene which Virgil will achieve . He has described a beautiful place and he has described a place of national cult , but the two things do not really come together . Despite the divine ...
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
Achilles adjective Aeneas Aeneid Anchises ancient Arcadia Ascanius atque Augustan Augustus Caesar Callimachus Carm Catullus Cicero colour comes context contrast Creusa death describes Dido distinctive divine earth echoes Eclogues emotional Ennius epic Epicurus Evander experience father Faunus feel force Georgics glory goddess gods golden age Greek hero Homer Horace human idea Iliad imagination Italian Italy Jupiter land landscape later Latin Latium laus Italiae lines literary look Lucr Lucretius meaning metaphor moral nature Nymphs Odyssey once Ovid Pallas paradox passage pastoral pathetic fallacy patriotic perhaps phrase poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry praise Propertius quae rerum river Roman Rome scene seems seen sense sentence significance simile speech spirit story suggests tells theme Theocritus things Tiber Tiberinus Tibullus tion tone Transpadane Trojans Troy Turnus Venus verse Virgil vision whole woods words