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 9
... scene of the eleventh Idyll with the anguished pederastic emotions of the twenty - ninth . Perhaps Virgil felt that the homoeroticism gave a Grecian , literary colour to what is in part a consciously artificial poem . Perhaps he simply ...
... scene of the eleventh Idyll with the anguished pederastic emotions of the twenty - ninth . Perhaps Virgil felt that the homoeroticism gave a Grecian , literary colour to what is in part a consciously artificial poem . Perhaps he simply ...
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... scene of her farewell deserves to rank with the Odyssey and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Georgics ; they are classical literature's three highest tributes to married love . Especially intriguing for our present enquiry are ...
... scene of her farewell deserves to rank with the Odyssey and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Georgics ; they are classical literature's three highest tributes to married love . Especially intriguing for our present enquiry are ...
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... scene — the fig tree , the rivers Simois and Scamander — because they are features of the battlefield , and not because they are interesting in themselves , but the sea is something more . ' The sea washes off all the ills of mankind ...
... scene — the fig tree , the rivers Simois and Scamander — because they are features of the battlefield , and not because they are interesting in themselves , but the sea is something more . ' The sea washes off all the ills of mankind ...
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... scene . Rivers might also be taken as emblematic of what we shall find to be one of his recurrent themes , the blend of change and continuity , for they are immemorially ancient and yet ' you can- not step into the same river twice ...
... scene . Rivers might also be taken as emblematic of what we shall find to be one of his recurrent themes , the blend of change and continuity , for they are immemorially ancient and yet ' you can- not step into the same river twice ...
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... scenes : cultivated ground , tilth , and vineyard ; or a mixture of spring , meadow , and shady grove ( not an exact ... scene , it is in the form of caves , which provide shade or shelter . For the landscapes that please Homer are those ...
... scenes : cultivated ground , tilth , and vineyard ; or a mixture of spring , meadow , and shady grove ( not an exact ... scene , it is in the form of caves , which provide shade or shelter . For the landscapes that please Homer are those ...
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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