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Virgil's Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places

By Richard Jenkyns

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1999
ISBN
0198140339, 9780198140337
LCC
PA6825 .J46 1998
Open Library ID
OL353207M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7429591 bytes)
Pages
728\727
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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