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Title:

Vergil's Georgics / edited by Katharina Volk.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

281 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Virgil.--Georgica.
Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
Virgil--Literature.--Literature.
Allusions in literature
Rome--In literature.

Other Authors:

Volk, Katharina, 1969-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) and index.

Contents:

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 npic in the Georgics (Georgics 2.4583.48) / 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.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies

ISBN:

0199542945 (pbk.)
9780199542949 (pbk.)
0199542937
9780199542932

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213375780

LCCN:

2008009943

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)