Playing the farmer [electronic resource] : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / Philip Thibodeau.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literaturePublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.Description: 326 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 871/.01 22
LOC classification:
  • PA6804.G4 T48 2011eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Agricolae -- Playing the farmer -- Nobility in rustication -- A protreptic to agronomy -- To enchant readers -- The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome -- Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status -- Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Agricolae -- Playing the farmer -- Nobility in rustication -- A protreptic to agronomy -- To enchant readers -- The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome -- Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status -- Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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