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Playing the farmer [[electronic resource] ] : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / / Philip Thibodeau



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Autore: Thibodeau Philip (Philip J.), <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Playing the farmer [[electronic resource] ] : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / / Philip Thibodeau Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
Disciplina: 871/.01
Soggetto topico: Agriculture in literature
Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism
Epic poetry, Classical - History and criticism
Allusions
Soggetto geografico: Rome In literature
Soggetto non controllato: aeneid
ancient and classic poetry
ancient orators
ancient roman poets
ancient rome literature
ancient rome poems
bucolic stories
classical poems
discussion books
epic poems
epic poetry
epics and sagas
epics
european literature
farm life
high school english class
homer
illiad
imperial rome
latin poems
latin translations
literary classics
literary criticism
literary
literature majors
literature professors
odyssey
poets
roman agronomists
roman orators
roman philosophers
roman poets
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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."
Titolo autorizzato: Playing the farmer  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27848-0
9786613278487
0-520-95025-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818581103321
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Serie: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.