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Virgil's garden : the nature of bucolic space / Frederick Jones.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Frederick, 1955- author.
- Series:
- Classical Studies & Archaeology 2013.
- Classical Studies & Archaeology 2013
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Bucolica.
- Virgil.
- Pastoral poetry, Latin.
- Country life in literature.
- Country life--Rome--Poetry.
- Country life.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and Virgil himself is free to enter their world. Virgil's bucolic space is, in many ways, a poetic replication of the public and private gardens of his Roman audience - enclosed green spaces which afforded the citizen sheltered social and cultural activities, temporary respite from the turbulence of public life, and a tamed landscape in which to play out the tensions between the simple ideal and the complexities of reality. This book examines the Eclogues in terms of the relationship between its contents and its cultural context, making connections between the Eclogues and the representational modes of Roman art, Roman concepts of space and landscape, and Roman gardens."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- 1 The Generic Landscape and Bucolic Space 17
- 2 Flora 29
- 3 Fauna 39
- 4 Places in and out of Eclogue-land 43
- Places outside Greece and Italy 44
- Places in the Greek world 45
- Sicily 47
- Arcadia (i) 48
- Places in Italy 50
- Timavus and Illyricum 50
- Rome 51
- Cremona and Mantua 57
- The Mincius 57
- Arcadia (ii) and the Mincius 58
- Arcadia (iii), Gallus, and Eclogue 60
- Places: Conclusion 64
- 5 Climate, Time, Geology, Geography 67
- Climate and time 67
- Geology and geography 70
- Mountains 71
- Caves, woods, springs, rivers 72
- Bogs, mud, stones, sand 75
- Sea 75
- Natural geography: Conclusion 64
- 6 Human Geography 79
- Occupations and social roles 79
- Familial roles 82
- Dwellings 83
- Diet 83
- Human geography 84
- Nymphs, fauns, and satyrs 85
- 7 Named People 89
- Bucolic names 89
- Recurrent names 90
- Non-bucolic names 91
- Special figures (i) Virgil, Daphnis, and Polyphemus and Galatea 103
- Special figures (ii) Roman figures 107
- Bucolic charades 109
- Poetry and poets in Rome and Eclogue-land 111
- 8 Containing Reality; Realisms and Realities 113
- Self-referentiality and the depiction of depiction 115
- Illusionism and reality effect 118
- Landscape and painting 122
- Nature, art, and artifice; the Garden 135
- Structure; montage and complexity 147
- 9 Conclusion 149.
- Notes:
- First published in 2011 by Bristol Classical Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic. Reprinted by Bloomsbury Academic 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns
- ISBN:
- 9781472555878
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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