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.
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