Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics

by Morgan, Llewelyn

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Full title :Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics / Llewelyn Morgan.

Summary

"Current orthodoxy interprets the Georgics as a statement of profound ambivalence towards Octavian and his claim to be Rome's saviour after the catastrophe of the civil wars. This book takes issue with the model of the subtly subversive poet which has dominated scholarship for the last quarter of a century. It argues that in the turbulent political circumstances which obtained at the time of the poem's composition, Virgil's preoccupation with violent conflict has a highly optimistic import. Octavian's brutal conduct in the civil wars is subjected to a searching analysis, but is ultimately vindicated, refigured as a paradoxically constructive violence analogous to blood sacrifice or Romulus' fratricide of Remus, a prerequisite of the foundation of Rome.

The vindication of Octavian also has strictly literary implications for Virgil. The close of the poem sees Virgil asserting his mastery of the Homeric mode of poetry, the most sublime available, and the providential world-view it was thought to embody."--Jacket

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

Notes

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 255 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107720114, 1107720117, 9780511549410, 0511549415
oclc:ocn871172713
LC Classification:PA6804.G4
Dewey Decimal:873/.01

Part I, Prima ab origine. The old man of the sea ; Aristeia -- Part II, Mirabile dictu. Ox and paradox ; Poeta creatus -- Postscript. Sphragis -- Appendix I. Proteus and Prōteús [in Greek script] -- Appendix II. [Georgics and the Odyssey] 4.400 -- Appendix III. Sparsere per agros.

Subjects

43-31 B.C Agriculture dans la littérature Agriculture in literature Auguste, empereur romain, 63 av. J.-C.-… Augustus,, Emperor of Rome Criticism, interpretation, etc Didactic poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and c… Georgica (Vergilius) Georgica (Virgil) History LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General Literature Poésie didactique latine -- Histoire et… Poésie politique latine -- Histoire et … Political and social views Political poetry, Latin Political poetry, Latin -- History and … Politics and literature Politics and literature -- Rome