The Georgics - Couverture rigide

Virgil

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1169227570 ISBN 13 : 9781169227576

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The Georgics is a poem written by the Roman poet Virgil, which consists of four books. The poem is about agriculture and the life of farmers in ancient Rome. The first book covers the importance of farming and the different types of agriculture, including the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock. The second book focuses on the care and management of livestock, including horses, cattle, and bees. The third book discusses the cultivation of trees and the production of wine. The final book is about the importance of divine intervention in agriculture, and how farmers can appease the gods to ensure a good harvest. The Georgics is considered one of the greatest works of Latin literature and is admired for its beautiful language and vivid imagery. It is also an important source of information about the agricultural practices of ancient Rome.Thee too, great Pales, will I hymn, and thee, Amphrysian shepherd, worthy to be sung, You, woods and waves Lycaean. All themes beside, Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song, Are now waxed common. Of harsh Eurystheus who The story knows not.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume and its companion volume devoted to the second half of the poem provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of Virgil's Georgics. Professor Thomas describes this work as 'perhaps the most difficult, certainly the most controversial, poem in Roman literature'. He presents the Georgics as the finished poem of Virgil's mature years, approaching it not merely as a part of the tradition of didactic poetry, but rather as a work which confronts, behind its generic appearance, issues not essentially different from those which inform the Eclogues and Aeneid. His introduction and Commentary argue that Virgil's agricultural world, with its successes, failures and ultimate limitations, represents the arena for man's struggle with the realities of existence. Professor Thomas pays particular attention to Virgil's allusion to and reshaping of prior Greek and Latin poetry. The Introduction also covers stylistic, metrical and structural questions. A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume. This edition is aimed primarily at students at university and in the upper forms of schools, but the range of its scholarship means that it will be valuable to all classical scholars. The Introduction contains material for non-classicists interested in Latin literature.

Biographie de l'auteur

Eminent Roman poet, Virgil is famous for his incomparable epic Aeneid which has greatly influenced literature through the ages. Son of an affluent landowner, Virgil was sent to Milan, Rome and Naples to study rhetoric, mathematics, and medicine. He became one of the ''Alexandrians" - a group of poets influenced by Greek bards of the 3rd century. His early works include the poetic collection Bucolica (37 B. C.; 10 books), and the informative Georgics (29 B. C.; 4 books). After the Battle of Actium in 31 B. C. Virgil was assigned by the victorious emperor Augustus to write about his rule. This resulted in his magnum opus Aeneid on which he worked from 30 to 19 B. C. Spread over 12 books; it vividly captures the splendour of the Roman Empire and made Virgil a legend.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1169227570
• ISBN 13: 9781169227576
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible