Playing the farmer
Subtitle: representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics
By: Philip Thibodeau
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780520268326
Subjects: In literature; Classical Epic poetry; Latin Didactic poetry; Agriculture in literature; History and criticism; Allusions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Agricolae; title: Playing the farmer; title: Nobility in rustication; title: A protreptic to agronomy; title: To enchant readers; title: The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome; title: Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status; title: Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics.