Playing the farmer: representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics
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1. Verfasser: Thibodeau, Philip 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press c2011
Schriftenreihe:Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction -- Agricolae -- Playing the farmer -- Nobility in rustication -- A protreptic to agronomy -- To enchant readers -- The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome -- Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status -- Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (326 p.)
ISBN:0520268326
0520950259
9780520268326
9780520950252

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