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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thibodeau, Philip (Philip J.), 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.