| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction: influence, allusion, intertextuality; 2 Beginnings and endings; 3 The gods, the farmer and the natural world; 4 Virgil s metamorphoses: mythological allusions; 5 Labor improbus; 6 The wonders of the natural world; 7 The cosmic battlefield: warfare and military imagery; 8 Epilogue: the philosopher and the farmer; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED; GENERAL INDEX. |
| Summary |
This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition. It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Virgil. Georgica.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus. |
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Virgil -- Knowledge and learning -- Literature.
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Virgil. |
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Literature. |
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Virgil -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Virgile. Georgica. |
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Lucrèce. De rerum natura. |
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Lucrèce -- Influence. |
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Virgile -- Et la littérature. |
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Virgile -- Philosophie. |
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De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) |
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Georgica (Virgil) |
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Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Didactic poetry, Latin. |
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Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
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Philosophy, Ancient, in literature. |
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Allusions in literature.
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Allusions in literature. |
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Rome -- In literature.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Intertextuality.
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Intertextuality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literature.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gale, Monica (Monica R.). Virgil on the nature of things. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521781116 (DLC) 99462247 (OCoLC)43334297 |
| ISBN |
0511017324 (electronic book) |
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9780511017322 (electronic book) |
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0511030711 (electronic book) |
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9780511030710 (electronic book) |
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9780511482182 (electronic book) |
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0511482183 (electronic book) |
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0511327463 |
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9780511327469 |
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9780511045967 (electronic book) |
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0511045964 (electronic book) |
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0511152345 |
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9780511152344 |
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1280429739 |
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9781280429736 |
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9780521781114 |
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0521781116 |
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