Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2019]
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| Series: | Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
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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.