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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... colour to what is in part a consciously artificial poem . Perhaps he simply wanted a variation , from his model or from the other poems that he planned . We do not know ; what we can say is that the homosexual theme is not of itself ...
... colour to what is in part a consciously artificial poem . Perhaps he simply wanted a variation , from his model or from the other poems that he planned . We do not know ; what we can say is that the homosexual theme is not of itself ...
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... colour of which we find elsewhere associated , like the goddesses themselves , with death.54 But in this case religious is combined with patriotic senti- ment . Oedipus will be buried here and become the object of a hero- cult ; it is ...
... colour of which we find elsewhere associated , like the goddesses themselves , with death.54 But in this case religious is combined with patriotic senti- ment . Oedipus will be buried here and become the object of a hero- cult ; it is ...
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... colour is like the Corycian crocus , but whose root in 60 Time in the Oresteia is a large and complex theme , and one which awaits a full ana- lysis . Late in Eum . we may note the phrase , applied to the Athenian people , sophronountes ...
... colour is like the Corycian crocus , but whose root in 60 Time in the Oresteia is a large and complex theme , and one which awaits a full ana- lysis . Late in Eum . we may note the phrase , applied to the Athenian people , sophronountes ...
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... colour : as the Argo speeds over the sea , the heroes ' arms shine in the sun like flame ; their long wake is white , like a path across a green field . " In all of this he shows a keen feeling for the visible world ; not so much for ...
... colour : as the Argo speeds over the sea , the heroes ' arms shine in the sun like flame ; their long wake is white , like a path across a green field . " In all of this he shows a keen feeling for the visible world ; not so much for ...
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... colours , which they brought to them held to their white bosoms , and a gleam as of fire surrounded them all , such ... coloured flowers and white bosoms , their presence itself is part of a decor appropriate to Jason and Medea ...
... colours , which they brought to them held to their white bosoms , and a gleam as of fire surrounded them all , such ... coloured flowers and white bosoms , their presence itself is part of a decor appropriate to Jason and Medea ...
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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