Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics

Philip Thibodeau (Philip J.), 1970- (Författare)

LCCN 2010053842, ISBN 9780520268326 · alk. paper, ISBN 0520268326 · alk. paper

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Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011, cop. 2011

326 p.

Philip Thibodeau

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Georgica, Jordbruk i litteraturen--Antiken, Latinsk poesi--Antiken, Agriculture in literature., Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism., Epic poetry, Classical--History and criticism., Rome--In literature., Allusions.

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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.