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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition

Gale, Monica R.

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Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521781116
ISBN13: 9780521781114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 9 2000
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition, particularly Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes, imagery, ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole, as a confrontation between the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing world views of his predecessors.

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