Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry--this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it--and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.
| ISBN: | 9780872206106 |
| Publication date: | 15th March 2002 |
| Author: | Virgil |
| Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 174 pages |
| Series: | Hackett Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic and pre-20th century poetry European history: the Romans |