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Virgil's Garden Hardback - 2011

by Frederick Jones

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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 out the tensions between the simple ideal and the complexities of reality.

This book examines the Eclogues in terms of the relationship between its contents and its cultural context, making connections between the Eclogues and the representational modes of Roman art, Roman concepts of space and landscape, and Roman gardens.

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  • Title Virgil's Garden
  • Author Frederick Jones
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bristol Classical Press
  • Publication date 2011-06-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780715638675 / 071563867X
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 960

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 10/01/2011, Page 182

About the author

Frederick Jones is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Liverpool, UKm and the author of Juvenal and the Satiric Genre.
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