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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thibodeau, Philip (Philip J.), 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Virgil. > Georgica.
Georgica (Virgil)
Literature.
Epic poetry, Classical.
Didactic poetry, Latin.
Allusions.
Agriculture in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
allusion.
Poesie epique ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Poesie didactique latine > Histoire et critique.
Agriculture dans la litterature.
Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism.
Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Rome (Empire)
Rome > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780520950252

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