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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Autor principal: Thibodeau, Philip 1970- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press c2011.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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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.
Descripción Física:326 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9780520950252