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Virgil on the nature of things :

(Number (ISBN

0521781116

(Number (ISBN

9780521781114

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Title Proper

Virgil on the nature of things :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Georgics, Lucretius, and the didactic tradition /

First Statement of Responsibility

Monica R. Gale.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2000.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 321 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and indexes.

Text of Note

"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.

Lucretius Carus, Titus-- Influence.

Lucretius Carus, Titus., De rerum natura.

Virgil-- Knowledge-- Literature.

Virgil-- Philosophy.

Virgil., Georgica.

Allusions in literature.

Didactic poetry, Latin-- History and criticism.

Intertextuality.

Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.

Rome, In literature.

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Book number

Gale, Monica, (Monica R.)

Date of Transaction

20140220044427.0

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[Book]

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