Virgil on the nature of things : the Georgics, Lucretius, and the didactic tradition / Monica R. Gale.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages)Content type:- text
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- Virgil -- Georgica
- Lucretius Carus, Titus -- De rerum natura
- Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence
- Virgil -- Knowledge -- Literature
- Virgil -- Philosophy
- Virgile Georgica
- Lucrèce -- De rerum natura
- Lucrèce -- Influence
- Virgile -- Et la littérature
- Virgile -- Philosophie
- Lucretius Carus, Titus
- Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
- Philosophy, Ancient, in literature
- Allusions in literature
- Rome -- In literature
- Intertextuality
- Allusions
- PA6804.4
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | PA6804.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocm56416029\ |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
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