Virgil's garden : the nature of bucolic space

205 Pages·2011·0.869 MB·English, Latin

by  Jones, Frederick, Virgil

Virgil’s Garden
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Virgil’s Garden
The Nature of Bucolic Space
Frederick Jones
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First published in 2011 by Bristol Classical Press
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Contents
Preface 11
1. The Generic Landscape and Bucolic Space 17
2. Flora 29
3. Fauna 39
4. Places in and out of Eclogue-land 43
Places outside Greece and Italy 44
Places in the Greek world 45
Sicily 47
Arcadia (i) 48
Places in Italy 50
Timavus and Illyricum 50
Rome 51
Cremona and Mantua 57
The Mincius 57
Arcadia (ii) and the Mincius 58
Arcadia (iii), Gallus, and Eclogue 10 60
Places: Conclusion 64
5. Climate, Time, Geology, Geography 67
Climate and time 67
Geology and geography 70
Mountains 71
Caves, woods, springs, rivers 72
Bogs, mud, stones, sand 75
Sea 75
Natural geography: Conclusion 64
6. Human Geography 79
Occupations and social roles 79
Familial roles 82
Dwellings 83
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Contents
Diet 83
Human geography 84
Nymphs, fauns, and satyrs 85

7. Named People 89
Bucolic names 89
Recurrent names 90
Non-bucolic names 91
Special figures (i) Virgil, Daphnis, and Polyphemus and 103
Galatea
Special figures (ii) Roman figures 107
Bucolic charades 109
Poetry and poets in Rome and Eclogue-land 111
8. Containing Reality; Realisms and Realities 113
Self-referentiality and the depiction of depiction 115
Illusionism and reality effect 118
Landscape and painting 122
Nature, art, and artifice; the Garden 135
Structure; montage and complexity 147
9. Conclusion 149
Notes 151
Bibliography 185
Index of Passages 197
General Index 199
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Where was ‘elsewhere’? Paris probably. But they didn’t quite know, and
wherever it was it seemed like a distant, forbidding place, some remote
and sacred region where that unknown deity squatted on its throne deep
in the inner recesses of its temple. They would never ever set eyes on this
god, they just sensed it, as a force weighing from afar on the ten thousand
colliers of Montsou.
Zola, Germinal, Part IV chapter 2
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