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 17
... turns into a story of love and its consummation . To all of this the Aeneid stands in contrast . The only time that we see Aeneas in his domestic setting is when he and his family must abandon it for ever.29 He and Dido may be lovers ...
... turns into a story of love and its consummation . To all of this the Aeneid stands in contrast . The only time that we see Aeneas in his domestic setting is when he and his family must abandon it for ever.29 He and Dido may be lovers ...
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... turn the Rhine into the supreme river of the European imagination . Indeed , this is one way in which he stands ... turns into Miss T , so all that he read , saw , thought , and felt turned into Virgil . Life and literature are not ...
... turn the Rhine into the supreme river of the European imagination . Indeed , this is one way in which he stands ... turns into Miss T , so all that he read , saw , thought , and felt turned into Virgil . Life and literature are not ...
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... turn to Ibycus : 44 In spring the Cydonian quinces bloom , watered from flowing rivers , where is the inviolate garden of the Maidens , and the vine flowers bloom , grow- ing beneath the shady vine sprays ; but for me love sleeps at no ...
... turn to Ibycus : 44 In spring the Cydonian quinces bloom , watered from flowing rivers , where is the inviolate garden of the Maidens , and the vine flowers bloom , grow- ing beneath the shady vine sprays ; but for me love sleeps at no ...
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... turn later to 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 ...
... turn later to 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 ...
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... turning to vast cosmic issues : much of the action concerns the relation between the Olympian gods and older deities , most of the characters are divine , and no mortals appear in the last quarter of the play at all except as onlookers ...
... turning to vast cosmic issues : much of the action concerns the relation between the Olympian gods and older deities , most of the characters are divine , and no mortals appear in the last quarter of the play at all except as onlookers ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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