Leah Kronenberg

Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows that, instead of just being works on farming, these texts in fact belong to a tradition of philosophical satire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521517263
• ISBN-10: 0521517265
• Artikelnr.: 26034195

Autorenporträt

Leah Kronenberg is Assistant Professor of Classics at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Xenophon's Oeconomicus: 1. Socrates and Critobulus (Oec. 1-6)
2. A philosopher and a gentleman (Oec. 7-21)
Part II. Varro's De Re Rustica: 3. The art of farming
4. The morality of farming
5. The politics of farming
Part III. Virgil's Georgics: 6. Virgil's satire on farming
7. Farmers and poets
Epilogue.