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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... story that I tell is about Virgil , and here my aim has been to penetrate deep into him ; but another story is about the development of attitudes to nature , a linear history which begins with Homer , argues for Lucretius and Virgil as ...
... story that I tell is about Virgil , and here my aim has been to penetrate deep into him ; but another story is about the development of attitudes to nature , a linear history which begins with Homer , argues for Lucretius and Virgil as ...
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... story about thoughts and feelings . It exam- ines these conceptions in the work of a great poet ; as such it is in some sense a study of Virgil's mind . It measures his originality by investigating how his mentality may be related to ...
... story about thoughts and feelings . It exam- ines these conceptions in the work of a great poet ; as such it is in some sense a study of Virgil's mind . It measures his originality by investigating how his mentality may be related to ...
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... story is that Virgil was a shy and retiring man ; if we choose to credit this , we may suppose that he guarded his privacy.2 In one respect we can indeed detect him baffling the world's curiosity . He published nothing until he was in ...
... story is that Virgil was a shy and retiring man ; if we choose to credit this , we may suppose that he guarded his privacy.2 In one respect we can indeed detect him baffling the world's curiosity . He published nothing until he was in ...
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... story of Nisus and Euryalus in support ( Virgil : The Aeneid ( Cambridge , 1990 ) , 8 ) . Most deliberate is J. Griffin : " The scandal which ancient gossip had to tell about Virgil was of a homosexual sort , and the sensibility of the ...
... story of Nisus and Euryalus in support ( Virgil : The Aeneid ( Cambridge , 1990 ) , 8 ) . Most deliberate is J. Griffin : " The scandal which ancient gossip had to tell about Virgil was of a homosexual sort , and the sensibility of the ...
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... story about Alexander had no more evidence to go on than we have ; he has made his fiction out of an ineptly ... stories of homosexual love in his narratives . 8 7 Ed . 2. I. Possibly the fact that an Alexis is addressed in an epigram ...
... story about Alexander had no more evidence to go on than we have ; he has made his fiction out of an ineptly ... stories of homosexual love in his narratives . 8 7 Ed . 2. I. Possibly the fact that an Alexis is addressed in an epigram ...
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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