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Author Morgan, Llewelyn

Title Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics / Llewelyn Morgan
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 255 pages)
Series Cambridge classical studies
Cambridge classical studies.
Contents Part I, Prima ab origine. The old man of the sea ; Aristeia -- Part II, Mirabile dictu. Ox and paradox ; Poeta creatus -- Postscript. Sphragis -- Appendix I. Proteus and Prōteús [in Greek script] -- Appendix II. [Georgics and the Odyssey] 4.400 -- Appendix III. Sparsere per agros
Summary "Current orthodoxy interprets the Georgics as a statement of profound ambivalence towards Octavian and his claim to be Rome's saviour after the catastrophe of the civil wars. This book takes issue with the model of the subtly subversive poet which has dominated scholarship for the last quarter of a century. It argues that in the turbulent political circumstances which obtained at the time of the poem's composition, Virgil's preoccupation with violent conflict has a highly optimistic import. Octavian's brutal conduct in the civil wars is subjected to a searching analysis, but is ultimately vindicated, refigured as a paradoxically constructive violence analogous to blood sacrifice or Romulus' fratricide of Remus, a prerequisite of the foundation of Rome
The vindication of Octavian also has strictly literary implications for Virgil. The close of the poem sees Virgil asserting his mastery of the Homeric mode of poetry, the most sublime available, and the providential world-view it was thought to embody."--Jacket
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Trinity College, Cambridge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-251) and indexes
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Subject Virgil. Georgica
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- In literature
Virgil -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. fast
Virgil fast
Vergilius Maro, Publius v70-v19 Georgica gnd
Virgile, 0070?-0019 av. J.-C. Georgica. ram
Virgile (0070-0019 av. J.-C.). Georgica. ram
Virgile, (0070-0019 av. J.-C.) -- Pensée politique et sociale. ram
Protée. ram
Georgica (Virgil) fast
Subject Political poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Rome
Agriculture in literature.
Redemption in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General.
Agriculture in literature
Didactic poetry, Latin
Literature
Political and social views
Political poetry, Latin
Politics and literature
Redemption in literature
Rhetoric, Ancient
War and literature
Georgica (Vergilius)
Politieke situatie.
Rédemption -- Dans la littérature.
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C. -- Literature and the war
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107720114
1107720117
9780511549410
0511549415