Vergil's Georgics
By: edited by Katharina Volk.
Contributors: Volk, Katharina, 1969-
Series: Oxford readings in classical studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780199542949; 9780199542932
Subjects: Virgil; Virgil -- Knowledge -- Literature; Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Allusions in literature; Rome -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scholarly approaches to the Georgics since the 1970s / Katharina Volk; title: Agriculture and the Georgics / M.S. Spurr; title: Prose into poetry : tradition and meaning in Virgil's Georgics / Richard F. Thomas; title: Authorial rhetoric in Virgil's Georgics / Richard Rutherford; title: Virgil's Metamorphoses : myth and allusion in the Georgics / Monica R. Gale; title: Labor improbus / Richard Jenkyns; title: Italian Virgil and the idea of Rome / Michael C. J. Putnam; title: Cosmology and national npic in the Georgics (Georgics 2.4583.48) / Philip Hardie; title: Pindar and the Proem to the Third Georgic / L. P. Wilkinson; title: Callimachus, the Victoria Berenices, and Roman poetry / Richard F. Thomas; title: The fourth Georgic, Virgil and Rome / Jasper Griffin.