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Virgil's Garden: The Nature of Bucolic Space

by Frederick Jones
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781472504456
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 33.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 295 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical, and Africa / General

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.

Jones, Frederick: -

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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