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| Named Person: | Virgil.; Titus Lucretius Carus; Titus Lucretius Carus; Virgil; Virgil; Virgil.; Virgil; Virgile.; Lucrèce.; Lucrèce; Virgile; Virgile; Publius Vergilius Maro; Lucretius; Vergil; Georgica.; Lukrez; De rerum natura.; Lucrèce.; Lucrèce (0098?-0055 av. J.-C.).; Virgile (0070-0019 av. J.-C.).; Publius Vergilius Maro; Titus Lucretius Carus |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Monica Gale |
| ISBN: | 0521781116 9780521781114 |
| OCLC Number: | 43334297 |
| Description: | xiii, 321 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Monica R. Gale. |
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Abstract:
"The Georgics has for the past twenty years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and - above all - Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, Monica Gale shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns in the Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgil's poem as an extended meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods and the natural environment."--Jacket.
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