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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... speech or treatise is the product of an individual mind ( so much is a truism ) , and some- times at least we may be tempted to think that its author , perhaps by design , perhaps willy - nilly , has revealed something of himself . This ...
... speech or treatise is the product of an individual mind ( so much is a truism ) , and some- times at least we may be tempted to think that its author , perhaps by design , perhaps willy - nilly , has revealed something of himself . This ...
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... speech and thought that at Naples he was commonly nicknamed Parthenias , and if he ever went about in public in Rome , to which he very seldom came , he would hide in the nearest house to take refuge from people fol- lowing him and ...
... speech and thought that at Naples he was commonly nicknamed Parthenias , and if he ever went about in public in Rome , to which he very seldom came , he would hide in the nearest house to take refuge from people fol- lowing him and ...
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... speech ' . A flourishing vine runs round the cave , rich with clusters . Four springs flow with clear water ; around are soft meadows , blooming with parsley and violet.28 Now Calypso is shown by her name to be the Concealer ; she who ...
... speech ' . A flourishing vine runs round the cave , rich with clusters . Four springs flow with clear water ; around are soft meadows , blooming with parsley and violet.28 Now Calypso is shown by her name to be the Concealer ; she who ...
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... speech ; once again , the details are designed to figure purity and virginity . The later writer is willing to allow impossibilities : no animal comes near Narcissus ' pool , no bee gathers honey , no branch falls from a tree . The ...
... speech ; once again , the details are designed to figure purity and virginity . The later writer is willing to allow impossibilities : no animal comes near Narcissus ' pool , no bee gathers honey , no branch falls from a tree . The ...
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... speech that look right forward to the second half of the poem . His loss of Simois sets up a dissonance that will not be resolved until Tiberinus offers himself as a new national and ancestral river in the eighth book ; 104 the allusion ...
... speech that look right forward to the second half of the poem . His loss of Simois sets up a dissonance that will not be resolved until Tiberinus offers himself as a new national and ancestral river in the eighth book ; 104 the allusion ...
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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