God and the Land : the Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil

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Abbreviations; Geneaological Table; Translator's Note: Hesiod's Works and Days; HESIOD'S WORKS AND DAYS; INTRODUCTION: HESIOD, POET AND FARMER; Hesiod's Time; Hesiod's Town and Country; Hesiod-Or Was He?; 1. THE COMPOSITION OF HESIOD'S POEMS; The Composition of the Theogony; The Composition of the Works and Days; The Farmer's Year; 2. THE MYTHIC BACKGROUND; Hesiod's Outlook; Pandora and the Nature of Hardship; The Five Ages: The History of Hardship; Hesiod's Fable and the J ustice of Zeus; 3. THE COMPOSITION OF THE GEORGICS: VERGIL'S FARM; Roman Farming; Vergil's Works and Days. Vergil and the Animals4. GOD; The Divine Order; Zeus and His Children; The Theology of Farming; The Gods of the Georgics; The Georgic of Force; The Georgic of Understanding; 5. THE HUMAN CONTEXT; Justice, Perception, and Farming; The Balance of Justice; The Place of Justice; Force and Order: Vergil and Caesar; The Third Georgic: The Problem of the Individual; The Fourth Georgic: The Promise of the Whole; 6. THE PLACE OF NATURE; The City, the Farm, and Nature; Orpheus and Aristaeus; Hesiod and the Balance of Nature; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R. St; u; v; w; x; z