Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thibodeau, Philip (Philip J.), 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Colección:Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Temas:
Virgil. > Georgica.
Georgica (Virgil)
Agriculture in literature.
Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism.
Allusions.
Agriculture dans la littérature.
Poésie didactique latine > Histoire et critique.
Poésie épique ancienne > Histoire et critique.
allusion.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Agriculture in literature
Allusions
Didactic poetry, Latin
Epic poetry, Classical
Literature
Rome > In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Agricolae
  • Playing the farmer
  • Nobility in rustication
  • A protreptic to agronomy
  • To enchant readers
  • The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome
  • Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status
  • Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics.

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