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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... tell is about Virgil , and here my aim has been to penetrate deep into him ; but another story is about the development of attitudes to nature , a linear history which begins with Homer , argues for Lucretius and Virgil as the promoters ...
... tell is about Virgil , and here my aim has been to penetrate deep into him ; but another story is about the development of attitudes to nature , a linear history which begins with Homer , argues for Lucretius and Virgil as the promoters ...
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... tells us that Virgil was said to have loved three people , Alexis , Pollio's gift , and Cebes and Leria ( presumably a cor- ruption of Ieria ) , who were said to have been gifts from Maecenas ; this is merely the account given in the ...
... tells us that Virgil was said to have loved three people , Alexis , Pollio's gift , and Cebes and Leria ( presumably a cor- ruption of Ieria ) , who were said to have been gifts from Maecenas ; this is merely the account given in the ...
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... tell us how impressive it was : how painfully superfluous we should have found that . We are bound to agree that Dido's story has engaged Virgil's deepest imagination as Nisus ' has not : across two thousand years how many readers can ...
... tell us how impressive it was : how painfully superfluous we should have found that . We are bound to agree that Dido's story has engaged Virgil's deepest imagination as Nisus ' has not : across two thousand years how many readers can ...
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... tells us that he is the son of a freedman , short , strikingly white- headed , dark - complexioned , quick tempered ... tell Corinna that he is not carry- ing on an affair with her maidservant because he would not want to have to do with ...
... tells us that he is the son of a freedman , short , strikingly white- headed , dark - complexioned , quick tempered ... tell Corinna that he is not carry- ing on an affair with her maidservant because he would not want to have to do with ...
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... tells of his escape from isolation on Calypso's island and restoration to his proper place in his society . Jason in Apollonius ' Argonautica is accompanied by 27 Juv . 14. 166 ff . Columella assumes that part of the estate's workforce ...
... tells of his escape from isolation on Calypso's island and restoration to his proper place in his society . Jason in Apollonius ' Argonautica is accompanied by 27 Juv . 14. 166 ff . Columella assumes that part of the estate's workforce ...
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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