Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition by Monica R. Gale
Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

Monica R. Gale

Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

Monica R. Gale

336 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particularly Luc...

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