Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics /
Thibodeau, Philip(Philip J.),1970-
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and index.
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.
Virgil.
Agriculture in literature.
Didactic poetry, Latin
Epic poetry, Classical
Allusions.