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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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Philip Thibodeau is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College.
Dil İngilizce ● Biçim EPUB ● Sayfalar 336 ● ISBN 9780520950252 ● Dosya boyutu 1.8 MB ● Yayımcı University of California Press ● Yayınlanan 2011 ● Baskı 1 ● İndirilebilir 24 aylar ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 5511607 ● Kopya koruma Adobe DRM
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