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Virgil’s Garden This page intentionally left blank Virgil’s Garden The Nature of Bucolic Space Frederick Jones LONDON • NEW DELHI • NEW YORK • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com First published in 2011 by Bristol Classical Press an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic Reprinted by Bloomsbury Academic 2013 © Frederick Jones, 2011 Frederick Jones has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identi(cid:2) ed as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: PB: 978-0-7156-3867-5 E-pub: 978-1-4725-1984-9 E-pdf: 978-1-4725-1983-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 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 5 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 6 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 7
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