page_title: Georgics
section_title: Reception and influence
hierarchical_section_title: Georgics / Reception and influence
caption_attribution_description: Folio 14r of the Vergilius Romanus.
context_page_description: The Georgics is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE. As the name suggests the subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose.
  The Georgics is considered Virgil's second major work, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. The poem draws on a variety of prior sources and has influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present.
caption: Author portrait of Virgil, Vergilius Romanus Folio 14
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