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Virgil on the nature of things : the Georgics, Lucretius, and the didactic tradition / Monica R. Gale.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511017324
  • 9780511017322
  • 0511030711
  • 9780511030710
  • 9780511482182
  • 0511482183
  • 0511327463
  • 9780511327469
  • 9780511045967
  • 0511045964
  • 0511152345
  • 9780511152344
  • 1280429739
  • 9781280429736
  • 0521028965
  • 9780521028967
  • 1107120276
  • 9781107120273
  • 0511173288
  • 9780511173288
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PA6804.4
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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.
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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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