| 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 -- Knowledge -- Literature
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Virgil -- Philosophy.
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Virgil. Georgica.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.
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Allusions in literature.
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Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Intertextuality.
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Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
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Rome -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99462247 |
| ISBN |
0511017324 (electronic bk.) |
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0511030711 (electronic bk.) |
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0511045964 (electronic bk.) |
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0511152345 |
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0511327463 |
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0511482183 (electronic bk.) |
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1280429739 |
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9780511017322 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511030710 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511045967 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511152344 |
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9780511327469 |
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9780511482182 (electronic bk.) |
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9781280429736 |
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