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 25
... nymph , the sea and the sea - god were sharply separ- ate ; he could thus fill his landscape with spiritual presences and still depict nature itself exactly as it is , without recourse to fantasy . Modern man desires to invest nature ...
... nymph , the sea and the sea - god were sharply separ- ate ; he could thus fill his landscape with spiritual presences and still depict nature itself exactly as it is , without recourse to fantasy . Modern man desires to invest nature ...
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... nymph deeper into an unseen interior , away from the immediate field of vision . Her name , her function and her landscape form a unity . The strength of her desire for Odysseus is evoked by the scene about her ; this setting , dark and ...
... nymph deeper into an unseen interior , away from the immediate field of vision . Her name , her function and her landscape form a unity . The strength of her desire for Odysseus is evoked by the scene about her ; this setting , dark and ...
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... nymphs ' garden is to contrast with the parch- ing wind in the fragment's second half ; by an elegant variation the wind is in a formal simile and the garden is not , but essentially they are upon the same level and correspond to one ...
... nymphs ' garden is to contrast with the parch- ing wind in the fragment's second half ; by an elegant variation the wind is in a formal simile and the garden is not , but essentially they are upon the same level and correspond to one ...
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... nymphs who nursed him ; Aphrodite and the Muses favour the place . The narcissus grows there , because it is the coronal of the Great Goddesses , Demeter and Persephone ; so too does the golden crocus , the colour of which we find ...
... nymphs who nursed him ; Aphrodite and the Muses favour the place . The narcissus grows there , because it is the coronal of the Great Goddesses , Demeter and Persephone ; so too does the golden crocus , the colour of which we find ...
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... nymphs shriek and all the meadows trembled at her step'.70 But this is not quite like the animation of nature at the epiphanies of Poseidon in the Iliad or Dionysus in the Bacchae ; it is part of a predictable appar- atus of horror ...
... nymphs shriek and all the meadows trembled at her step'.70 But this is not quite like the animation of nature at the epiphanies of Poseidon in the Iliad or Dionysus in the Bacchae ; it is part of a predictable appar- atus of horror ...
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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