Monica R. Gale

Virgil on the Nature of Things

The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780521781114
• ISBN-10: 0521781116
• Artikelnr.: 22741156

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of 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
Indexes.