Vergil's Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the Georgics

account of Saturnus Aeneas Aeneid aetas agricultural golden age amor habendi Apollo appears Aratus Aristaeus atque Augustus aurea aureus auro blessed bronze race Callimachus Catullus Catullus 64 chronology connotation context contrast Cronus Cydippe Cyrene depicted deterioration Dikê earth echoes enjoyed Ennius envisions Epode Erga Euhemerus Eurydice existence farmer felicity ferrea fourth Georgic gens gods gold Greek Hermes Hesiod's account Hesiod's golden race Hesiod's metallic myth Hesiod's race hive honey Horace Horace's human race ipsa iron race Italy Juno Jupiter Jupiter's Klingner Latium Lucretius mankind metallic golden age moreover mortal race nomadic numina Octavian Orpheus Ovid Peleus ploughing-ox poem Prometheus prophecy quae race of bronze race of heroes race of mortals reference Roman Rome saecula Saturnia Saturnia regna Saturnia tellus Saturnus second Georgic silver race terra theme third Georgic Thrace Thracian Tibullus toil tradition Vergil Vergil's bees Vergil's conception Vergil's Fourth Eclogue Zeus δὲ καὶ