Georgics

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry--this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it--and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.

Product details

• Authors: Virgil
• Assisted by: Kristina Chew (Translation)
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2002
• EAN: 9780872206090
• ISBN: 978-0-87220-609-0
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 214 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 226 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: Hackett Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies