Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics
by
Philip Thibodeau
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized,...