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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... whole of this book , woven across and through it , and this criss - crossing is part of its design . One story that I tell is about Virgil , and here my aim has been to penetrate deep into him ; but another story is about the ...
... whole of this book , woven across and through it , and this criss - crossing is part of its design . One story that I tell is about Virgil , and here my aim has been to penetrate deep into him ; but another story is about the ...
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... . 100 ) may have something to do with it . 9 Serv . ad Buc . 2. 15 ; Mart . 8. 56. 11 ff .; Apul . Apol . 10. Hieria also appears in the Schol . Bern . on Ecl . 6. 17 . If we take Virgil as a whole , we find 8 BEFORE VIRGIL.
... . 100 ) may have something to do with it . 9 Serv . ad Buc . 2. 15 ; Mart . 8. 56. 11 ff .; Apul . Apol . 10. Hieria also appears in the Schol . Bern . on Ecl . 6. 17 . If we take Virgil as a whole , we find 8 BEFORE VIRGIL.
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... whole , we find that the love between men and women is a large and prominent theme in all three of his works ; homosexual love is directly treated in hardly more than two places , the second Eclogue and the story of Nisus and Euryalus ...
... whole , we find that the love between men and women is a large and prominent theme in all three of his works ; homosexual love is directly treated in hardly more than two places , the second Eclogue and the story of Nisus and Euryalus ...
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... whole to be the expression of a naturally homosexual imagination . The deaths of Nisus and Euryalus stir Virgil to this exclamation : 13 fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt , nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo , dum domus ...
... whole to be the expression of a naturally homosexual imagination . The deaths of Nisus and Euryalus stir Virgil to this exclamation : 13 fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt , nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo , dum domus ...
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... whole : no one later can match her , not Turnus 15 Examples offered are Juno , Dido in her last phase , Amata's madness , the shrieks of Andromache in the third book and Euryalus ' mother in the ninth , the hysteria of the Trojan women ...
... whole : no one later can match her , not Turnus 15 Examples offered are Juno , Dido in her last phase , Amata's madness , the shrieks of Andromache in the third book and Euryalus ' mother in the ninth , the hysteria of the Trojan women ...
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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