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

2003-01-01articleThe Classical World147 citationsclosed

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Classical Antiquity Studies Classical Studies and Philology Classical Philosophy and Thought

Abstract

Preface List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: influence, allusion, intertextuality 2. Beginnings and endings 3. The gods, the farmer and the natural world 4. Virgil's metamorphoses: mythological allusions 5. Labor improbus 6. The wonders of the natural world 7. The cosmic battlefield: warfare and military imagery 8. Epilogue: the philosopher and the farmer Bibliography Indexes.

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