| Virgil's Experience ' Nature and History; Times, Names, and Places ' Contributor(s): Jenkyns, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198140339 ISBN-13: 9780198140337 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 873.01 |
| LCCN: 98012862 |
| Lexile Measure: 1310 |
| Physical Information: 1.88" H x 6.57" W x 9.53" (2.81 lbs) 726 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |