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Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics

Title
Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / Philip Thibodeau.
Author
Thibodeau, Philip (Philip J.), 1970-
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

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Description
326 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Virgil
  • Agriculture in literature
  • Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism
  • Epic poetry, Classical > History and criticism
  • Allusions
  • Rome > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Agricolae -- Playing the farmer -- Nobility in rustication -- A protreptic to agronomy -- To enchant readers -- The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome -- Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status -- Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics.
Call Number
JFE 11-3452
ISBN
  • 9780520268326 (alk. paper)
  • 0520268326 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010053842
OCLC
YBP 2010053842
Author
Thibodeau, Philip (Philip J.), 1970-
Title
Playing the farmer : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / Philip Thibodeau.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-3452
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