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Zusatztext "T.'s book is well structured, well written, and - in the opinion of this reviewer, at any rate - largely convincing." Informationen zum Autor Philip Thibodeau is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College. Klappentext “Thibodeau examines Virgil’s representations, often fanciful and fictitious, of farming and of rural life in general, of the labor and leisure that help define survival on the land. With commanding learning and with a gifted critic’s taste and judgment, he aligns the Georgics against ancient writing on agronomy to illustrate how Virgil brilliantly manipulates his sources, and how in turn his innovations affected the work of later writers influenced by his authority.”—Michael Putnam, author of Virgil’s Poem of the Earth “By using the interesting concept of 'economic fantasy,' Thibodeau rightly avoids separating (as many had done) form and farm, culture and agriculture in his new discussion of Vergil's agrarian poem.”—Alessandro Barchiesi, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies Zusammenfassung Helps in our understanding of Vergil's "Georgics", a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the "Aeneid". The author 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction One. Agricolae Two. Playing the Farmer Three. Nobility in Rustication Four. A Protreptic to Agronomy Five. To Enchant Readers Six. The Reception of the Georgics in Early Imperial Rome Appendix One. Vergil's Economic Status Appendix Two. Early Readership of the Georgics Notes Bibliography Index
