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. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Virgil. Georgica.
Agriculture in literature. Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism. Epic poetry, Classical--History and criticism. Allusions.