The GeorgicsPenguin, 1982 - 160 oldal A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety, The Georgics is probably the supreme achievement of Latin poetry. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Preface | 7 |
Select Bibliography | 9 |
General Introduction | 11 |
LITERARY BACKGROUND OF THE CEORGICS | 16 |
POLITICAL CLIMATE | 20 |
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY | 27 |
AGRICULTURAL LORE | 31 |
THE POEM | 32 |
Note on the Translation | 55 |
Book i | 57 |
Introduction to Book 2 | 74 |
Book 2 | 77 |
Introduction to Book 3 | 95 |
Book 3 | 99 |
Introduction to Book 4 | 119 |
Notes | 144 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Aeneid ancient animals Antony Apollo Aratus Aristaeus Bacchus battle beasts bees beneath birds breed Bucolics Bugonia bulls Caesar cattle Ceres Chaonian contrast corn crops Cytorus death deep didactic divine earth Eclogue Epicurean epyllion eulogy of country eulogy of Italy Eurydice famous farmer father fields flocks fruit furrows Georgics glades goats gods golden grass Greek ground heaven herds Hesiod hexameter hive Homer honey horns horses human idea INTRODUCTION TO BOOK Italian Italy Julius Jupiter king L. P. Wilkinson labour land Lapiths Latin leaves lines Lucretius Maecenas Mantua mighty mountain Naples Naryx Naturalis Historia night Nymphs olives Orpheus Ovid passage pasture plant plough poem poet poetic poetry proem Proteus rain river Roman Rome rustic Saturn sheep soil spring stars story stream Suetonius theme Thessaly translation trees Underworld Varro verse victory vines Virgil waves weather-signs wild wind wings winter woods young