These two volumes provide a commentary, with text, on Virgil's Georgics, a poem in four books probably written between 35 and 29 BC. The introduction, in Volume 1, treats the poem's historical background and its relationship to the early years of Augustan Rome, Virgil's use of prior literary material, his stylistic and metrical expertise, and questions of poetic structure. There is also a section interpreting the poem in light of recent scholarship, which seeks to consider the poem as part of the broad unity of Virgil's career, rather than from a narrow didactic approach. A new Latin text of the poem is followed by extensive line-by-line commentary, explaining difficult passages, interpreting poetic intent, and tracing the influence of Virgil's Greek and Roman antecedents. A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume.
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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'.
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V.'s most extensive, and most complex, programmatic statement comes in the centre of the poem. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
serae solam decedere nocti, benefacta iuuant, subdita flamma medullis, abde domo, ethnographical tradition, second proem, golden line, dying horse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory by P. E. Easterling in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The "Eclogues" and "Georgics" (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil on page 88, and Back Matter
- The Eclogues & Georgics by Virgil in Back Matter
- Collectanea Alexandrina by J. U. Powell in Back Matter
- Profile of Horace by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in Back Matter
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