Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Xinyue, Bobby (Editor), Freer, Nicholas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2019]
Series:Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Reading the Georgics
  • The story of you: second-person narrative and the narratology of the Georgics / Robert Cowan
  • Clearing the ground in Georgics 1 / Stephen J. Heyworth
  • Aesthetics, form and meaning in the Georgics / Richard Thomas
  • Religion and philosophy
  • Georgica and Orphica: the Georgics in the context of Orphic poetry and religion / Tom Mackenzie
  • Virgil's Georgics and the Epicurean sirens of poetry / Nicholas Freer
  • Politics and society
  • Divinization and didactic efficacy in Virgil's Georgics / Bobby Xinyue
  • Bunte barbaren setting up the stage: re-inventing the barbarian on the Georgics' theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48) / Elena Giusti
  • From Munera uestra cano to Ipse dona feram: language of social reciprocity in the Georgics / Martin Stockinger
  • Roman responses
  • "Pulpy fiction": Virgilian reception and genre in Columella De re rustica 10 / Sara Myers
  • Servian readings of religion in the Georgics / Ailsa Hunt
  • Modern responses
  • The Georgics off the Canadian coast: Marc Lescarbot's Adieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian tradition / William Barton
  • Shelley's Georgic landscape / Katharine Earnshaw
  • Women and earth: female responses to Virgil's Georgics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Susanna Braund.