Playing the farmer representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics
Setting Vergil's Georgics in the social context of its day, the book 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. It argues that what has been seen as a straigh...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2011.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31166854*spi |
Sumario: | Setting Vergil's Georgics in the social context of its day, the book 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. It 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 326 p. |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
ISBN: | 9780520950252 |