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Zusatztext a handsome and well-produced volume. Informationen zum Autor Katharina Volk is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Columbia University. Klappentext This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Georgics written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from several different countries. The contributions are representative of recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, with some discussing general issues raised by the work and others treating important individual poems and passages. The editor's Introduction places the essays in their context. A conspectus of contemporary Georgics criticism, the book will be helpful to students who are encountering the poems for the first time - all Latin has been translated - and will also serve as a reference work for more seasoned scholars. Zusammenfassung This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Georgics written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from several different countries. The contributions are representative of recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, with some discussing general issues raised by the work and others treating important individual poems and passages. The editor's Introduction places the essays in their context. A conspectus of contemporary Georgics criticism, the book will be helpful to students who are encountering the poems for the first time - all Latin has been translated - and will also serve as a reference work for more seasoned scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Katharina Volk: Introduction: scholarly approaches to the Georgics since the 1970s 2: M. S. Spurr: Agriculture and the Georgics 3: Richard F. Thomas: Prose into poetry: tradition and meaning in Vergil's Georgics 4: Richard Rutherford: Authorial rhetoric in Vergil's Georgics 5: Monica R. Gale: Vergil's metamorphoses: myth and allusion in the Georgics 6: Richard Jenkyns: Labor Improbus 7: Michael C. J. Putnam: Italian Vergil and the idea of Rome 8: Philip Hardie: Cosmology and national epic in the Georgics (Georgics 2.458-3.48) 9: L. P. Wilkinson: Pindar and the proem to the third Georgic 10: Richard F. Thomas: Callimachus, the Victoria Berenices, and Roman poetry 11: Jasper Griffin: The fourth Georgic: Vergil and Rome ...
