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Virgil's Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Jenkyns, Richard (Reader in Classical Languages and Literature, and Fellow, Reader in Classical Languages and Literature, and Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Virgil's Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places
Jenkyns, Richard (Reader in Classical Languages and Literature, and Fellow, Reader in Classical Languages and Literature, and Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
This book is about Virgil's ideas of nature, landscape, history, and patriotism. It is also concerned with ideas of nature throughout antiquity and with the poetry and culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It combines a close reading of Virgil's texts with a broad vision of the revolution in Western sensibility they helped to effect.
726 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 26, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198140337 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 726 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 165 × 48 mm · 1.23 kg |
| Language | English |