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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... praise of Virgil to follow , and so let us venture an uncomfortable judgement now : the episode of Nisus and Euryalus is weaker than we expect from him . We even meet an uncharacteristically clumsy attempt to jack up the pathos : we had ...
... praise of Virgil to follow , and so let us venture an uncomfortable judgement now : the episode of Nisus and Euryalus is weaker than we expect from him . We even meet an uncharacteristically clumsy attempt to jack up the pathos : we had ...
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... praise . Rome was noisy , crowded , and much larger than any city had been before ; it was also full of spongers and pretentious persons , vivid in Horace's verse . These things would seem likely to make the countryside at least , and ...
... praise . Rome was noisy , crowded , and much larger than any city had been before ; it was also full of spongers and pretentious persons , vivid in Horace's verse . These things would seem likely to make the countryside at least , and ...
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... praising the beauties of Colonus.53 It is exceptionally long 49 Ba . 1084 f . SI As E. R. Dodds observed in his commentary , ad loc . so Ba . 864-7 . 52 Ba . 704-11 ; cf. 143 . 53 Oed . Col. 668–719 . and continuously sustained for a ...
... praising the beauties of Colonus.53 It is exceptionally long 49 Ba . 1084 f . SI As E. R. Dodds observed in his commentary , ad loc . so Ba . 864-7 . 52 Ba . 704-11 ; cf. 143 . 53 Oed . Col. 668–719 . and continuously sustained for a ...
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... praising the olive for growing in Attica . with a strength and spontaneity unknown in Asia or the Peloponnese ; it nurtures children , and Athena watches over it . How strong is the sentiment of place in this ode ? The name of Colonus ...
... praising the olive for growing in Attica . with a strength and spontaneity unknown in Asia or the Peloponnese ; it nurtures children , and Athena watches over it . How strong is the sentiment of place in this ode ? The name of Colonus ...
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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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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