Virgil on the Nature of Things
The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition
The Georgics has for many 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, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought int…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-03071-0
- EAN: 9780511030710
- Produktnummer: 13793947
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'759 KB
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