Virgil's Garden: The Nature of Bucolic Space

by Frederick Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472504453
• ISBN13: 9781472504456
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"