Vergil's Georgics

Vergil's Georgics

by Volk, Katharina

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A collection of ten classic essays on Virgil's 'Georgics', written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Virgilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written introduction.

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  • Full title :Vergil's Georgics / edited by Katharina Volk.

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A collection of ten classic essays on Virgil's 'Georgics', written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Virgilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written introduction.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:281 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0199542937, 9780199542932, 0199542945, 9780199542949
  • oclc:ocn229463770
  • LC Classification:PA6804.G4
  • Dewey Decimal:873.01

Table of Contents

Introduction : scholarly approaches to the Georgics since the 1970s / Katharina Volk -- Agriculture and the Georgics / M.S. Spurr -- Prose into poetry : tradition and meaning in Virgil's Georgics / Richard F. Thomas -- Authorial rhetoric in Virgil's Georgics / Richard Rutherford -- Virgil's Metamorphoses : myth and allusion in the Georgics / Monica R. Gale -- Labor improbus / Richard Jenkyns -- Italian Virgil and the idea of Rome / Michael C.J. Putnam -- Cosmology and national epic in the Georgics (Georgics 2.458-3.48) / Philip Hardie -- Pindar and the Proem to the Third Georgic / L.P. Wilkinson -- Callimachus, the Victoria Berenices, and Roman poetry / Richard F. Thomas -- The fourth Georgic, Virgil and Rome / Jasper Griffin.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Didactic poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and c… Georgica (Virgil) Poésie didactique latine -- Histoire et… Virgil

Writers

Volk, Katharina

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