VIRGIL: GEORGICS Edited with a Commentary

Virgil Vergil; R. A. B. Mynors (Ed. ) & R. G. M. Nisbet (Pref. )

ISBN 10: 0198144458 / ISBN 13: 9780198144458

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1990

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: VIRGIL: GEORGICS Edited with a Commentary
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198144458
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198144458
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Poids: 1,57 livre
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Latin Literature

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Synopsis

Virgil's Georgics, considered to be one of the great poems of Western literature, is ostensibly a didactic poem on agriculture. Challenging this idea, the late Sir Roger Mynors argues that the poem's true subject is humanity and its place in nature and society. The poem is also a landmark in the use of the natural world as material for literature and of special interest because the poet draws not only on his own experience but also on his wide reading of Greek poetry. This commentary examines Virgil's meaning and choice of expression to provide a fuller understanding of the poetry.

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.