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Playing the Farmer
Philip Thibodeau
其他書名
Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics
出版University of California Press, 2011-07-05
主題Literary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / European / General
ISBN05209502599780520950252
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W1adaDpNqzkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Thibodeau shows how Vergil’s poem reshaped agrarian ideals in its own time, and how it influenced Roman poets, philosophers, agronomists, and orators. Playing the Farmer brings a fresh perspective to a work that was praised by Dryden as "the best poem by the best poet."