Virgil's experience : nature and history : times, names, and places / Richard Jenkyns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkyns, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.

Virgil.

Natural history.

Literature and history--Rome.

Literature and history.

Virgil--Knowledge and learning--History.

History.

Virgil--Contemporary Rome.

Landscapes in literature.

Nature in literature.

Names in literature.

Time in literature.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Rome--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 712 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity, combined with the study of attitudes towards 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 B.C. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0198140339

OCLC:

38438763