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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... things distinct . If Virgil associates rivers with culture and civility , he associates them 32 Eur . Iph . Taur . 1193 ; Aesch . Prom . 89 f .; Xen . Anab . 4. 7. 24 . 33 Cat . 64. 12-18 , 269–75 ; Val . Fl . 5. 108 ( ' the shadow of ...
... things distinct . If Virgil associates rivers with culture and civility , he associates them 32 Eur . Iph . Taur . 1193 ; Aesch . Prom . 89 f .; Xen . Anab . 4. 7. 24 . 33 Cat . 64. 12-18 , 269–75 ; Val . Fl . 5. 108 ( ' the shadow of ...
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... things in Homer which are either kept in the background , to be felt occa- sionally as a dim presence , or else ... thing . So too with fertility religion : the springing up of the flowers at the coupling of Zeus and Hera , who here ...
... things in Homer which are either kept in the background , to be felt occa- sionally as a dim presence , or else ... thing . So too with fertility religion : the springing up of the flowers at the coupling of Zeus and Hera , who here ...
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... things . The pathetic fallacy is completely absent ; whatever association there may be between Calypso and her ... thing but mine own ' . He could have stayed with Calypso , more beauti- ful than his wife Penelope , in a landscape ...
... things . The pathetic fallacy is completely absent ; whatever association there may be between Calypso and her ... thing but mine own ' . He could have stayed with Calypso , more beauti- ful than his wife Penelope , in a landscape ...
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... things which have a connection with her . Apples and horses are both found , sometimes at least , in association with her cult . There are no apples in this poem , as the season is spring or early summer , only apple - trees ; ' pasture ...
... things which have a connection with her . Apples and horses are both found , sometimes at least , in association with her cult . There are no apples in this poem , as the season is spring or early summer , only apple - trees ; ' pasture ...
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... things alike belong . The tem- porary and immediate concerns of one city's politics exist in a con- tinuum which extends outwards to the fundamental order of the for she is one shape having many names , and is both Chthon and Themis ...
... things alike belong . The tem- porary and immediate concerns of one city's politics exist in a con- tinuum which extends outwards to the fundamental order of the for she is one shape having many names , and is both Chthon and Themis ...
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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