God and the land : the metaphysics of farming in Hesiod and Vergil /
"The Works and Days" of Hesiod and Virgil's "Georgics" are fundamental texts in the Greek canon. Here Nelson brings them together with a metaphysical eye, showing how the two writers each viewed the farming lifestyle as a system of belief unto itself. A translation of Hesiod...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Griego Antiguo |
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Hesiod's Works and Days / Translated by David Grene 9
- Introduction: Hesiod, Poet and Farmer 31
- 1. The Composition of Hesiod's Poems 41
- 2. The Mythic Background 59
- 3. The Composition of the Georgics: Vergil's Farm 82
- 4. God 98
- 5. The Human Context 125
- 6. The Place of Nature 152.