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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... poet felt about some matters , unclear about others . The man who read through Paradise Lost and doubted whether its ... poetic personality , offering no judgement about the historical Lucretius at all . There is surely some relationship ...
... poet felt about some matters , unclear about others . The man who read through Paradise Lost and doubted whether its ... poetic personality , offering no judgement about the historical Lucretius at all . There is surely some relationship ...
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... poet by Pollio , reflecting the poem's description of Alexis as ' delicias domini ' , the master's pet.7 We cannot ... poets to treat homoerotic themes alongside the love of women : Catullus , Horace , and Tibullus all do so . The fact ...
... poet by Pollio , reflecting the poem's description of Alexis as ' delicias domini ' , the master's pet.7 We cannot ... poets to treat homoerotic themes alongside the love of women : Catullus , Horace , and Tibullus all do so . The fact ...
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... poet susceptible to feminine charm . We have already seen this in the Eclogues . Though the Georgics is for most of its length a poem without people in it , the ending is dominated by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice , a tale of love ...
... poet susceptible to feminine charm . We have already seen this in the Eclogues . Though the Georgics is for most of its length a poem without people in it , the ending is dominated by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice , a tale of love ...
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... poet is a Greek , Virgil begins the second half of his poem by referring to ' our shores ' : we are Italians.20 And later , at the cost of historical anachronism and geographical implausibility , he has war- riors from Mantua travelling ...
... poet is a Greek , Virgil begins the second half of his poem by referring to ' our shores ' : we are Italians.20 And later , at the cost of historical anachronism and geographical implausibility , he has war- riors from Mantua travelling ...
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... poet , perhaps Ennius , calls , ' my native mountains , the cradle of my being ' , he goes for the sake of rest and refreshment from a city of a size that an Odysseus could not even conceive . ( The context of this latter quotation ...
... poet , perhaps Ennius , calls , ' my native mountains , the cradle of my being ' , he goes for the sake of rest and refreshment from a city of a size that an Odysseus could not even conceive . ( The context of this latter quotation ...
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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