Thibodeau, Philip 1970-

Playing the farmer representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / [electronic resource] : Philip Thibodeau. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. - 326 p. - Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature .

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,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Virgil. Georgica.


Agriculture in literature.
Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Classical--History and criticism.
Allusions.


Rome--In literature.


Electronic books.

PA6804.G4 / T48 2011eb

871/.01