| Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics' Contributor(s): Morgan, Llewelyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521651662 ISBN-13: 9780521651660 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 871.01 |
| LCCN: 98-44171 |
| Series: Cambridge Classical Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a study of one of the most famous poems of Roman literature, Virgil's Georgics. By close reading of selected passages in the poem it seeks to understand the work in terms of the cultural and political upheavals that were afflicting Rome at the time of its composition. The poem, it argues, constitutes an audacious attempt to explain and justify the violent civil wars that had recently brought Octavian (the future Augustus, with whom Virgil was closely associated) to power in Rome. |