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Virgil on the nature of things : the Georgics, Lucretius, and the didactic tradition

By Gale , Monica R.

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0-521-78111-6, 9780521781114, 9780511017322, 0511017324, 9780511030710, 0511030711, 9780511045967, 0511045964, 9780511152344, 0511152345, 9780511327469, 0511327463, 9780511482182, 0511482183, 9781280429736, 1280429739
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1611308 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
321\335
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Virgil Georgica Didactic poetry Latin History and

Description

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 Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things"). It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole, as a confrontation between the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing world views of his predecessors

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