Virgil: Georgics: Volume 2, Books III-IV by Virgil

Virgil: Georgics: Volume 2, Books III-IV by Virgil

This volume, the second of two companion volumes which provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of Virgil's Georgics, is devoted to Books III and IV of the poem. Professor Thomas describes the Georgics as 'perhaps the most difficult, certainly the most controversial, poem in Roman literature'. He presents the Georgics as the finished poem of Virgil's mature years, approaching it not merely as a part of the tradition of didactic poetry, but rather as a work which confronts, behind its generic appearance, issues not essentially different from those which inform the Eclogues and Aeneid. His introduction (in Volume 1 only) and Commentary argue that Virgil's agricultural world, with its successes, failures and ultimate limitations, represents the arena for man's struggle with the realities of existence. Professor Thomas pays particular attention to Virgil's allusion to and reshaping of prior Greek and Latin poetry. The Introduction also covers stylistic, metrical and structural questions. A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume, the indexes in this volume covering the whole work. This edition is aimed primarily at students at university and in the upper forms of schools, but the range of its scholarship means that it will be valuable to all classical scholars. The Introduction contains material for non-classicists interested in Latin literature.

Slavitt has written more than fifty volumes as a poet, writer, critic, and journalist. His translations include Ovid's Metamorphoses, Avianus' Fables, Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Seneca's Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2 are all accessible through Johns Hopkins University Press.

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ISBN 13	9780521346788
ISBN 10	0521346789
Title	Virgil: Georgics: Volume 2, Books III-IV
Author	Virgil
Series	Cambridge Greek And Latin Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1988-08-25
Number of pages	264
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