Author: GALE, MONICA R.
Title: Virgil on the Nature of Things the Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
Description: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521781116. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Very light pencil marginalia to a few pages else book is fine. DJ has minor creasing along edges with 1 tiny chip. ; Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particularly Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ("On the Nature of Things"). It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole, as a confrontation between the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing world views of his predecessors. ; 336 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0521781116 Didactic Poetry Poetry & Poets Vergil Virgil Georgics Latin Literature Classical Greek & Roman


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