Georgics
By: Virgil ; translated by Peter Fallon ; with an introduction and notes by Elaine Fantham.
Contributors: Fallon, Peter, 1951-; Fantham, Elaine.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780192806796
Subjects: Didactic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English; Agriculture -- Poetry
Genres: Translations into English.; Poetry.
Work titles: Georgica.
Description: 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.
Notes: Translated from the Latin.

Includes bibliographical references.