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  1. Playing the farmer
    representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics
    Author: Thibodeau, Philip
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Setting Vergil's Georgics in the social context of its day, the book connects the poem's idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. It... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Setting Vergil's Georgics in the social context of its day, the book connects the poem's idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. It argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520950252; 0520950259; 1283278480; 9781283278485
    Series: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (326 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  2. Playing the farmer
    representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics
    Author: Thibodeau, Philip J.
    Published: c2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil's Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Online-Ressource
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    Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil's Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem's idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520268326; 9781283278485
    Series: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
    Subjects: Allusions; Epic poetry, Classical; Didactic poetry, Latin; Agriculture in literature
    Other subjects: Virgil: Georgica
    Scope: Online-Ressource (326 p)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Introduction -- Agricolae -- Playing the farmer -- Nobility in rustication -- A protreptic to agronomy -- To enchant readers -- The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome -- Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status -- Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics.