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Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics /
Setting Vergil's Georgics in the social context of its day, the book connects the poem's idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. It argues that what has been seen as a straigh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Setting Vergil's Georgics in the social context of its day, the book connects the poem's idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. It argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (326 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780520950252 0520950259 1283278480 9781283278485 9786613278487 6613278483 |