[DOC] [TLE] History of Horticulture: Lecture 19 1 [PAR] Roman Agricultural Writers. Marcus Porcius ... Instruction for Female 
Housekeepers ... I. When you are thinking of acquiring a farm, keep in mind these 
.... varieties, the one that attracts the lightning turns into as many ... Best known for 
epic poem the Aeneid, the national epic .... 2 years before his death, only work to 
survive. [DOC] [TLE] Virgil - Wikipedia [PAR] Publius Vergilius Maro usually called Virgil or Vergil /vrdl/ in English, 
was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major 
works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic 
Aeneid ... His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome 
from the... [DOC] [TLE] Virgil - Poetry Foundation [PAR] Romans and Italians after his death attributed many myths to Virgil's tomb, for 
example ... best known for three major worksthe Bucolics (or Eclogues), the 
Georgics, and ... the lavish myths, turns out to be no less great a poet than he was 
before. .... So Virgil writes about farming, but not for farmers, and in a precise 
historical... [DOC] [TLE] The Golden Age of Latin Literature under Augustus - World History ... [PAR] The Georgics (On Land Cultivation) is a didactic poem written at the behest of 
Maecenas ... than the Iliad is being created"a favorable review even before the 
publication date. It soon became the national epic of Rome, the Latin answer to 
Homer. .... In 30 B.C.E, the Roman poet Vergil began his epic work The Aeneid in
... [DOC] [TLE] Virgil | Roman poet | Britannica.com [PAR] Nov 24, 2015 ... Roman poet, best known for his national epic, the Aeneid (from c. ... diction of his 
verse and for his skill in constructing an intricate work on the .... In form it is 
didactic, but, as Seneca later said, it was written not to instruct farmers but to ... 
there pass before his eyes the figures of heroes from Roman history,... [DOC] [TLE] Virgil - Crystalinks [PAR] His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time 
... Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most ... 
After considering briefly a career in rhetoric and law, the young Virgil turned ... 
The ostensible theme of the Georgics is instruction in the methods of running a 
farm. [DOC] [TLE] The 110Tech Aeneid Page [PAR] Virgil was still working on revising the Aeneid when he died in 19 BC. ... from the 
centuries immediately prior to its composition, and these are historical. ... The 
Aeneid is written in dactylic hexameters, the same meter as the Iliad and the 
Odyssey. ... The Georgics purports to be a book of advice for farmers; but it too 
has major... [DOC] [TLE] History of HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE - HistoryWorld [PAR] Born in 70 BC in a farming community near Mantua, Rome's greatest poet ... 
Virgil turns next to a more robust treatment of nature in the four longer poems 
which make up the Georgics, written between 36 and 29 BC and dedicated to 
Maecenas. ... the Georgics gently celebrate Italy and its countryside, the Aeneid 
is an epic... [DOC] [TLE] Amazon.com: Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in ... [PAR] Amazon.com: Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's ... 
Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he ... 
and how in turn his innovations affected the work of later writers influenced by his 
authority. ... The poem was not, for example, an instruction book for managing 
one's... [DOC] [TLE] SparkNotes: The Aeneid: Context [PAR] Also explains the historical and literary context that influenced The Aeneid. ... 
later he finished his second work, the Georgics, a long poem on farming. ... 
Before Augustus became emperor, though, internal strife plagued the Roman 
government. ... the foundation of Rome entered the written tradition centuries 
after Homer,... [DOC] [TLE] Publius Virgilius Maro [PAR] Because of Virgil's fathers great success in farming, he was

Question: This Roman wrote the "Georgics", an instructional work on farming, before turning to historical epics
Answer: Virgil