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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... Latin Experience : Virgil and the Poets 593 IS A Roman Experience : Virgil , Augustus , and the Future 631 Appendix : Labor Improbus 678 Index of Passages Cited 685 Index of Greek and Latin Words 704 General Index 706 Abbreviations ...
... Latin Experience : Virgil and the Poets 593 IS A Roman Experience : Virgil , Augustus , and the Future 631 Appendix : Labor Improbus 678 Index of Passages Cited 685 Index of Greek and Latin Words 704 General Index 706 Abbreviations ...
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... Latin poet can match him for the evocation of an impalpable , evanescent femininity . Venus in the first book is one such instance , and we shall see how masculine is his way of presenting her . 18 Camilla is another case : there is no ...
... Latin poet can match him for the evocation of an impalpable , evanescent femininity . Venus in the first book is one such instance , and we shall see how masculine is his way of presenting her . 18 Camilla is another case : there is no ...
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... Latin literature ; and as minor a figure as Valerius Flaccus could beautifully evoke the shadows lengthening over the rippling water as evening falls : ' magnae pelago tremit umbra Sinopes.'33 Virgil declines such opportunities ; but ...
... Latin literature ; and as minor a figure as Valerius Flaccus could beautifully evoke the shadows lengthening over the rippling water as evening falls : ' magnae pelago tremit umbra Sinopes.'33 Virgil declines such opportunities ; but ...
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... Latin poets often advertise their know- ledge of Greek precedent , Virgil should be considered exceptional.2 But it is not the purpose of this chapter either to assert or to deny that he had read all the works discussed in it . Our ...
... Latin poets often advertise their know- ledge of Greek precedent , Virgil should be considered exceptional.2 But it is not the purpose of this chapter either to assert or to deny that he had read all the works discussed in it . Our ...
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... Latin poetry , of ornamental effect being preferred to precise and accurate observation ( 647–9 ) . The above paragraph is meant partly as an answer to this unsympathetic account . One detail : Williams objects ( 648 ) , " The epithet ...
... Latin poetry , of ornamental effect being preferred to precise and accurate observation ( 647–9 ) . The above paragraph is meant partly as an answer to this unsympathetic account . One detail : Williams objects ( 648 ) , " The epithet ...
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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