LEADER 04511nam 2201105 a 450 001 9910781220803321 005 20230725050549.0 010 $a1-283-27848-0 010 $a9786613278487 010 $a0-520-95025-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520950252 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039904 035 $a(EBL)730034 035 $a(OCoLC)739051484 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000524860 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11327031 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524860 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10488469 035 $a(PQKB)11297303 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055892 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC730034 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30968 035 $a(DE-B1597)519208 035 $a(OCoLC)747411302 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520950252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL730034 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10482127 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327848 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039904 100 $a20110103d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlaying the farmer$b[electronic resource] $erepresentations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics /$fPhilip Thibodeau 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 1 $aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26832-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aPlaying the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil's Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem's idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Thibodeau shows how Vergil's poem reshaped agrarian ideals in its own time, and how it influenced Roman poets, philosophers, agronomists, and orators. Playing the Farmer brings a fresh perspective to a work that was praised by Dryden as "the best poem by the best poet." 410 0$aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 606 $aAgriculture in literature 606 $aDidactic poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEpic poetry, Classical$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAllusions 607 $aRome$xIn literature 610 $aaeneid. 610 $aancient and classic poetry. 610 $aancient orators. 610 $aancient roman poets. 610 $aancient rome literature. 610 $aancient rome poems. 610 $abucolic stories. 610 $aclassical poems. 610 $adiscussion books. 610 $aepic poems. 610 $aepic poetry. 610 $aepics and sagas. 610 $aepics. 610 $aeuropean literature. 610 $afarm life. 610 $ahigh school english class. 610 $ahomer. 610 $ailliad. 610 $aimperial rome. 610 $alatin poems. 610 $alatin translations. 610 $aliterary classics. 610 $aliterary criticism. 610 $aliterary. 610 $aliterature majors. 610 $aliterature professors. 610 $aodyssey. 610 $apoets. 610 $aroman agronomists. 610 $aroman orators. 610 $aroman philosophers. 610 $aroman poets. 615 0$aAgriculture in literature. 615 0$aDidactic poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEpic poetry, Classical$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAllusions. 676 $a871/.01 700 $aThibodeau$b Philip$g(Philip J.),$f1970-$01514118 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781220803321 996 $aPlaying the farmer$93749029 997 $aUNINA