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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
Virgil on the Nature of Things The Georgics Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
Author: Monica R. Gale
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521781114
ISBN-10: 0521781116
Publication Date: 12/11/2000
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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