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Author Gale, Monica (Monica R.)

Title Virgil on the nature of things : the Georgics, Lucretius, and the didactic tradition / Monica R. Gale
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction: influence, allusion, intertextuality; 2 Beginnings and endings; 3 The gods, the farmer and the natural world; 4 Virgil s metamorphoses: mythological allusions; 5 Labor improbus; 6 The wonders of the natural world; 7 The cosmic battlefield: warfare and military imagery; 8 Epilogue: the philosopher and the farmer; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED; GENERAL INDEX
Summary This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition. It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Virgil. Georgica
Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura
Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence
Virgil -- Knowledge -- Literature
Virgil -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Lucretius Carus, Titus fast
Virgil fast
De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) fast
Georgica (Virgil) fast
Subject Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
Allusions in literature.
Intertextuality.
Allusions.
allusion.
POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Allusions
Allusions in literature
Didactic poetry, Latin
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intertextuality
Literature
Philosophy
Philosophy, Ancient, in literature
SUBJECT Rome -- In literature
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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