TY - BOOK AU - Thibodeau,Philip ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Playing the farmer: representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics AV - PA6804.G4 T48 2011eb U1 - 871/.01 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Virgil. KW - Agriculture in literature KW - Didactic poetry, Latin KW - History and criticism KW - Epic poetry, Classical KW - Allusions KW - Rome KW - In literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10482127 ER -