Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / Philip Thibodeau.

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 straigh...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Thibodeau, Philip (Philip J.), 1970-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series:	Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Subjects:	Virgil. > Georgica. Agriculture in literature. Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism. Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism. Allusions. Rome > In literature. Georgica (Virgil) Didactic poetry, Latin. Epic poetry, Classical. Literature. Rome (Empire) Criticism, interpretation, etc.