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Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry--this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming.
In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it--and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day.
Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.
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- Pages:174 pages
- Publisher:Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Publication Date:15/03/2002
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- ISBN:9780872206106
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:174 pages
- Publisher:Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Publication Date:15/03/2002
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- ISBN:9780872206106
