
Virgil's Experience
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places
Richard Jenkyns(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 26. November 1998
Book
Hardback
726 pages
978-0-19-814033-7 (ISBN)
Description
This 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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The first unified interpretive account of Vergil's complete oeuvre in over twenty years * Journal of Roman Studies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1244 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-814033-7 (9780198140337)
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Person
Author
Reader in Classical Languages and Literature, and FellowReader in Classical Languages and Literature, and Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford