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Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics
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ISBN: 9780520268326 0520268326 9786613278487 1283278480 0520950259 9780520950252 9781283278485 6613278483 Year: 2011 Volume: *10 Publisher: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,

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Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil's Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time 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. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Thibodeau shows how Vergil's poem reshaped agrarian ideals in its own time, and how it influenced Roman poets, philosophers, agronomists, and orators. Playing the Farmer brings a fresh perspective to a work that was praised by Dryden as "the best poem by the best poet."


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The gnat and other minor poems of Virgil
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ISBN: 1283278332 9786613278333 0520949994 9780520949997 9781283278331 9780520267657 0520267656 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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These delightful poems-by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar-seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in David R. Slavitt's imaginative and appealing translations, they stand firmly on their own merits. Slavitt brings to this little-known body of verse a fresh voice, vividly capturing the tone and style of the originals while conveying a lively sense of fun.

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