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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition Book

Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, Virgil's agricultural poem, the <i>Georgics</i>, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the <i>Georgics</i> and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particular, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition has a rating of 3 stars
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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particular, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
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  • Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
  • Written by author Monica R. Gale
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, March 2006
  • Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particular
  • This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition.
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Preface; List of abbreviations;

1. Introduction: influence, allusion, intertextuality;
2. Beginnings and endings;
3. The gods, the farmer and the natural world;
4. Virgil's metamorphoses: mythological allusions;
5. Labor improbus;
6. The wonders of the natural world;
7. The cosmic battlefield: warfare and military imagery;
8. Epilogue: the philosopher and the farmer; Bibliography; Indexes.


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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, Virgil's agricultural poem, the <i>Georgics</i>, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the <i>Georgics</i> and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particular, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

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