Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition by Gale, Monica R.

Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521028967)

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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition by Gale, Monica R.

Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

$53.00
Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition by Gale, Monica R.

Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

$53.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Monica R. Gale
ISBN-10: 0521028965
ISBN-13: 9780521028967
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

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