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

By Richard Jenkyns

Virgil's Experience ' Nature and History; Times, Names, and Places ' Philosophy

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

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
728
Release Date:
1999-02-18
Publication Date:
1998-11-26
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198140339
ISBN13:
9780198140337
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1244 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
43 cm
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