Richard Jenkyns
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Jenkyns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkyns |
| SIGNATURE | JENKYNS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Household Gods
Review Article| January 01 2020 Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome by Alexandra Sofroniew Sofroniew, Alexandra, Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), 160 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 184–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899964 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Troy, Carthage, and the Victorians
Book Review| April 01 2020 Troy, Carthage, and the Victorians: The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination by Rachel Bryant Davies Davies, Rachel Bryant, Troy, Carthage, and the Victorians: The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 402 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) …
Pater the Classicist
Book Review| August 01 2018 Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism ed. by Charles Martindale, Stefano Evangelista, and Elizabeth Prettejohn Martindale, Charles; Evangelista, Stefano; Prettejohn, Elizabeth, eds., Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 384 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Sit…
Classical Commentaries
Book Review| August 01 2018 Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre ed. by Christina S. Kraus and Christopher Stray Kraus, Christina S.; Stray, Christopher, eds., Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 592 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 450–451. https://doi.org/10.1215/096175…
The Conversation of Gentlemen
The Conversation of Gentlemen Richard Jenkyns Rereading Adam Parry's essay (1963) on "The Two Voices," I am struck by how deliberately it presents itself as an essay in belles lettres. There are no footnotes, not even line references. The first pages are the most brilliant. Parry takes a fragment from the ordinary texture of the Aeneid, less than two lines in the Italian catalogue, and submits them to a close reading out of which he develops an i…
Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative
Book Review| April 01 2017 Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative Barchiesi, Alessandro, Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative, trans. Marchesi, Ilaria. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), 216 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 358–359. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3816014 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo P…
The Last Trojan Hero
Choruses, Ancient and Modern
Book Review| September 01 2015 Choruses, Ancient and Modern Billings, Joshua, Budelmann, Felix, and Macintosh, Fiona, eds., Choruses, Ancient and Modern. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 448 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 525. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3131063 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity
Book Review| April 01 2015 Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: Aesthetics and History in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft Harloe, Katherine, Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: Aesthetics and History in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 304 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 347. https://doi.org/10.1…
Classical Victorians
Book Review| January 01 2015 Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels, and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity Richardson, Edmund, Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels, and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 242 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 112. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818225 Cite Icon Cite…
The Classics and Colonial India
Book Review| September 01 2015 The Classics and Colonial India Vasunia, Phiroze, The Classics and Colonial India. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 416 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 529–530. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3131111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Jenkyns;…
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Book Review| August 01 2014 Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece Ross, Iain, Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 298 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 509. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2733269 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Juvenal on the Poets
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Westminster Abbey
The Other Virgil
The Classical Tradition
This chapter contains section titled: References and Further Reading
James “Athenian” Stuart
Book Review| August 01 2008 James “Athenian” Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity Susan Weber Soros, ed., James “Athenian” Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 688 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 501. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-027 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo P…
A Compulsion for Antiquity
Book Review| April 01 2008 A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World Richard H. Armstrong, A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), 305 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (2): 319. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-082 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email P…
The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece
Book Review| January 01 2008 The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece Julien-David Le Roy, The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece, trans. David Britt (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2004), 558 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 163–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
After Antiquity
Virgil's Experience. Nature and History
Classical Studies, 1872–1914
In 1872, some minor reforms were made to Moderations. For the first time ‘set authors’ were decreed; this was a significant move, even though the average undergraduate's reading is likely to have changed little in practice. The big four, Homer, Virgil, Demosthenes, and Cicero's speeches, were now compulsory for honours; Aeschines disappeared from the list, and the Hellenistic poet Theocritus was added to it; on the Latin side, Propertius and sele…
Virgil’s Experience
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC a…
Virgil's Experience
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC a…
Virgil and the Euphrates
Virgil and Arcadia
There is an obstacle to our natural appreciation of Virgil's Eclogues which looms as large in their case as in that of any poetry whatever. The Eclogues form probably the most influential group of short poems ever written: though they themselves take Theocritus as a model, they were to become the fountainhead from which the vast and diverse tradition of pastoral in many European literatures was to spring. To use them as a model was in itself to d…
Virgil's Experience. Nature and History
Virgil and the Euphrates
Three Archaic Poets; Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho
Pathos, Tragedy and Hope in the Aeneid
In the course of this century fashions in classical scholarship have come and gone; out in the wider world the Victorians have fallen from grace and been restored to it again; but throughout this time there seems to have endured a picture of Virgil as a Victorian poet avant la lettre , a Tennysonian aesthete, languidly and compassionately melancholic, shedding warm soft tears as he contemplates the perennial sorrows of humanity. ‘Sunt lacrimae re…
Three Archaic Poets; Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho
Virgil and Arcadia
There is an obstacle to our natural appreciation of Virgil's Eclogues which looms as large in their case as in that of any poetry whatever. The Eclogues form probably the most influential group of short poems ever written: though they themselves take Theocritus as a model, they were to become the fountainhead from which the vast and diverse tradition of pastoral in many European literatures was to spring. To use them as a model was in itself to d…
Pastoral
Pastoral, said William Empson, is a process of’putting the complex into the simple’–perhaps the most famous of modern attempts to explain this curious genre in terms of its aesthetic or social function. This chapter is mainly concerned with a more humdrum task: to examine what actually happened, and to consider why pastoral exists at all, how it came into being, and how it has changed. The more we know about its odd and accidental history, the be…
The Legacy of Rome
The achievements of the Roman world have profoundly affected European and world civilization. The original Legacy of Rome, edited by Cyril Bailey, was published in 1923 and has been widely a read and enjoyed. Nearly seventy years on, this new edition, illustrated with 24 pages of plates, offers an entirely fresh assessment of the influence of ancient Rome on the literature, art, culture, thought, and governance of later times. Fourteen contributo…
Virgil and the Euphrates
Virgil’s Experience
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC a…
Virgil's Experience
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC a…
Classical Studies, 1872–1914
In 1872, some minor reforms were made to Moderations. For the first time ‘set authors’ were decreed; this was a significant move, even though the average undergraduate's reading is likely to have changed little in practice. The big four, Homer, Virgil, Demosthenes, and Cicero's speeches, were now compulsory for honours; Aeschines disappeared from the list, and the Hellenistic poet Theocritus was added to it; on the Latin side, Propertius and sele…
Virgil's Experience. Nature and History
After Antiquity
The Classical Tradition
This chapter contains section titled: References and Further Reading
James “Athenian” Stuart
Book Review| August 01 2008 James “Athenian” Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity Susan Weber Soros, ed., James “Athenian” Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 688 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 501. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-027 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo P…
A Compulsion for Antiquity
Book Review| April 01 2008 A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World Richard H. Armstrong, A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), 305 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (2): 319. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-082 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email P…
The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece
Book Review| January 01 2008 The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece Julien-David Le Roy, The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece, trans. David Britt (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, 2004), 558 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 163–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
The Other Virgil
Westminster Abbey
Juvenal on the Poets
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Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Book Review| August 01 2014 Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece Ross, Iain, Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 298 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 509. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2733269 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Choruses, Ancient and Modern
Book Review| September 01 2015 Choruses, Ancient and Modern Billings, Joshua, Budelmann, Felix, and Macintosh, Fiona, eds., Choruses, Ancient and Modern. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 448 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 525. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3131063 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity
Book Review| April 01 2015 Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: Aesthetics and History in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft Harloe, Katherine, Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: Aesthetics and History in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 304 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 347. https://doi.org/10.1…
Classical Victorians
Book Review| January 01 2015 Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels, and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity Richardson, Edmund, Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels, and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 242 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 112. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818225 Cite Icon Cite…
The Classics and Colonial India
Book Review| September 01 2015 The Classics and Colonial India Vasunia, Phiroze, The Classics and Colonial India. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 416 pp. Richard Jenkyns Richard Jenkyns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 529–530. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3131111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Jenkyns;…
The Last Trojan Hero
The Conversation of Gentlemen
The Conversation of Gentlemen Richard Jenkyns Rereading Adam Parry's essay (1963) on "The Two Voices," I am struck by how deliberately it presents itself as an essay in belles lettres. There are no footnotes, not even line references. The first pages are the most brilliant. Parry takes a fragment from the ordinary texture of the Aeneid, less than two lines in the Italian catalogue, and submits them to a close reading out of which he develops an i…
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