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Virgil's Garden

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Virgil's Garden

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
206
Release Date:
2011-06-23
Publication Date:
2011-06-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
071563867X
ISBN13:
9780715638675
Weight:
479 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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