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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... poem's description of Alexis as ' delicias domini ' , the master's pet.7 We cannot be sure how Cebes , a refugee ... poem which is obviously presented as a fantasy has Maecenas offer- ing his slave Alexis to Virgil . The historicity of ...
... poem's description of Alexis as ' delicias domini ' , the master's pet.7 We cannot be sure how Cebes , a refugee ... poem which is obviously presented as a fantasy has Maecenas offer- ing his slave Alexis to Virgil . The historicity of ...
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... poem . Perhaps he simply wanted a variation , from his model or from the other poems that he planned . We do not know ... poem's flaw ( The Idea of Lyric ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1982 ) , 166 ) . II Ed . 8. 37-41 . 12 certain self ...
... poem . Perhaps he simply wanted a variation , from his model or from the other poems that he planned . We do not know ... poem's flaw ( The Idea of Lyric ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1982 ) , 166 ) . II Ed . 8. 37-41 . 12 certain self ...
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... poem , it could hardly have been otherwise . The Aeneid as a whole places a very high value on love , while showing what disaster it can bring in its train ; in this respect , Nisus ' ruin in the poem's second half corresponds to Dido's ...
... poem , it could hardly have been otherwise . The Aeneid as a whole places a very high value on love , while showing what disaster it can bring in its train ; in this respect , Nisus ' ruin in the poem's second half corresponds to Dido's ...
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... poem is a harbour which offers safety from the waves . The poem's plot requires the Trojans to plough vast tracts of ocean , but unlike his model , the Odyssey , Virgil does not at all exploit the romance of the sea , neither its mys ...
... poem is a harbour which offers safety from the waves . The poem's plot requires the Trojans to plough vast tracts of ocean , but unlike his model , the Odyssey , Virgil does not at all exploit the romance of the sea , neither its mys ...
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... man did not die until 23 Bc , but it becomes a pivot 35 Geo . I. 311 ff . 36 Geo . I. 481-3 . 37 Aen . 7. 30-2 ; 8. 36 ff . , 86 ff . 38 Aen . 2. 305-8 . in the poem's development , chastening the loud patriotism that INTRODUCTION 19.
... man did not die until 23 Bc , but it becomes a pivot 35 Geo . I. 311 ff . 36 Geo . I. 481-3 . 37 Aen . 7. 30-2 ; 8. 36 ff . , 86 ff . 38 Aen . 2. 305-8 . in the poem's development , chastening the loud patriotism that INTRODUCTION 19.
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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