Georgics: Books 1-2. Vol.1This volume and its companion volume devoted to the second half of the poem provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of Virgil's Georgics. Professor Thomas describes this work as 'perhaps the most difficult, certainly the most controversial, poem in Roman literature'. He presents the Georgics as the finished poem of Virgil's mature years, approaching it not merely as a part of the tradition of didactic poetry, but rather as a work which confronts, behind its generic appearance, issues not essentially different from those which inform the Eclogues and Aeneid. His introduction and Commentary argue that Virgil's agricultural world, with its successes, failures and ultimate limitations, represents the arena for man's struggle with the realities of existence. Professor Thomas pays particular attention to Virgil's allusion to and reshaping of prior Greek and Latin poetry. The Introduction also covers stylistic, metrical and structural questions. A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume. This edition is aimed primarily at students at university and in the upper forms of schools, but the range of its scholarship means that it will be valuable to all classical scholars. The Introduction contains material for non-classicists interested in Latin literature. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Generic affiliations | 3 |
The models for the Georgics | 4 |
Structure | 12 |
The Laudes Galli | 13 |
The poem | 16 |
Style and language | 24 |
Metre | 28 |
The text | 32 |
P VERGILI MARONIS GEORGICON III | 37 |
Commentary | 68 |
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adjective Aeneas Aeneid aequor age of Jupiter agricolae agricultural alta anaphora Arat Aratus Aristaeus armenta arua aruis atque Bacchus bees bugonia caeli caesura Callim Callimachus Cato Catullus Ceres Columella conflation context cura didactic Eclogues Ennius epyllion farmer Gallus Georgics golden age golden line grafting Greek haud herba Hesiod hinc Homeric Horace illa instance ipsa ipse Italy Jupiter labor laeta Latin laudes Italiae Lucr Lucretius magno nature neque noun nunc occurs Octavian Odes olive omne omnia omnis Orpheus Ovid parallel passage pater perhaps personification Phaen pinguis plant Pliny plough poem poet poetic poetry present quae quam quid rastris reference rustic saepe Saturnian Scythia seems sense Servius sidera signa siluae simile soil spontaneous storm suggest tamen technical tellus tenuis terra theme Theophr Theophrastus tibi toil treated trees tricolon ulmos Varro verb vine Virgil Virgilian word