Virgil's Garden
The Nature of Bucolic Space
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4725-1983-2
- EAN: 9781472519832
- Produktnummer: 17036639
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'918 KB
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Frederick Jones is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of Juvenal and the Satiric Genre (Bloomsbury, 2007) and The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome (Bloomsbury, 2016).Frederick Jones is senior lecturer in Classics in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, UK. His chief areas of interest are the Roman Novel and Roman Satire.
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