Title: Georgics /
Authors: Virgil; Fallon, Peter, 1951-; Fantham, Elaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Didactic poetry, Latin Translations into English.; Agriculture Poetry
Abstract: Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatisesand in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetrythis bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within itand also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.
Contents: 'What tickles the corn to laugh out loud ... ' -- 'You too, Pales, great godess of the folds ... ' -- 'Which brings me to heaven's gift of honey ... '.