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Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s
Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the
Aeneid. Setting the
Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Thibodeau shows how Vergil’s poem reshaped agrarian ideals in its own time, and how it influenced Roman poets, philosophers, agronomists, and orators.
Playing the Farmer brings a fresh perspective to a work that was praised by Dryden as ‘the best poem by the best poet.’
Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the
Aeneid. Setting the
Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Thibodeau shows how Vergil’s poem reshaped agrarian ideals in its own time, and how it influenced Roman poets, philosophers, agronomists, and orators.
Playing the Farmer brings a fresh perspective to a work that was praised by Dryden as ‘the best poem by the best poet.’
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Despre autor
Philip Thibodeau is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College.
Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 336 ● ISBN 9780520950252 ● Mărime fișier 1.8 MB ● Editura University of California Press ● Publicat 2011 ● Ediție 1 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5511607 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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