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 15
... seems to have been an inspiration for the conclusion which Horace gave to his first book of Epistles , where he tells us that he is the son of a freedman , short , strikingly white- headed , dark - complexioned , quick tempered but ...
... seems to have been an inspiration for the conclusion which Horace gave to his first book of Epistles , where he tells us that he is the son of a freedman , short , strikingly white- headed , dark - complexioned , quick tempered but ...
Page 26
... seem so little puzzled by the presence of a youth wandering without reason between the Greek and Trojan lines ? Why the strange sympathy that seems to pass between him and this unknown person ? Why does he speak as though he knows and ...
... seem so little puzzled by the presence of a youth wandering without reason between the Greek and Trojan lines ? Why the strange sympathy that seems to pass between him and this unknown person ? Why does he speak as though he knows and ...
Page 28
... seem to find landscape used , as it is not used in the Iliad , to enhance mood or express temperament . Now of course ... seems to fit him in a way that cannot entirely be explained in literal terms . The idea enters the Odyssey that the ...
... seem to find landscape used , as it is not used in the Iliad , to enhance mood or express temperament . Now of course ... seems to fit him in a way that cannot entirely be explained in literal terms . The idea enters the Odyssey that the ...
Page 33
... seems much further interested in a distinctive geography ; true , not every island known to the Greeks had a wooded hill , but the brief depic- tion of Ithaca fits recognizably into the mould of the Homeric gen- eralized description ...
... seems much further interested in a distinctive geography ; true , not every island known to the Greeks had a wooded hill , but the brief depic- tion of Ithaca fits recognizably into the mould of the Homeric gen- eralized description ...
Page 41
... seems largely secular in quality ; but we are still far from Virgil's binding of the abstract to the concrete , his realization that a person may feel history , identity , the divine through a lively perception of the outward and ...
... seems largely secular in quality ; but we are still far from Virgil's binding of the abstract to the concrete , his realization that a person may feel history , identity , the divine through a lively perception of the outward and ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
Achilles adjective Aeneas Aeneid Anchises ancient Arcadia Ascanius atque Augustan Augustus Caesar Callimachus Carm Catullus Cicero colour comes context contrast Creusa death describes Dido distinctive divine earth echoes Eclogues emotional Ennius epic Epicurus Evander experience father Faunus feel force Georgics glory goddess gods golden age Greek hero Homer Horace human idea Iliad imagination Italian Italy Jupiter land landscape later Latin Latium laus Italiae lines literary look Lucr Lucretius meaning metaphor moral nature Nymphs Odyssey once Ovid Pallas paradox passage pastoral pathetic fallacy patriotic perhaps phrase poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry praise Propertius quae rerum river Roman Rome scene seems seen sense sentence significance simile speech spirit story suggests tells theme Theocritus things Tiber Tiberinus Tibullus tion tone Transpadane Trojans Troy Turnus Venus verse Virgil vision whole woods words