Eclogues and Georgics
Title | Eclogues and Georgics PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 544 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Pastoral poetry, Latin |
ISBN |
The Georgics and the Eclogues
Title | The Georgics and the Eclogues PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 2013-12-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781483703411 |
The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil, containing ten pieces, each called not an idyll, populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. The Georgics is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, with the subject of agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, The Eclogues, The Georgics, and The Aeneid.
Works
Title | Works PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1821 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Vergil ́s Political Commentary
Title | Vergil ́s Political Commentary PDF eBook |
Author | Leendert Weeda |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 183 |
Release | 2015-06-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110426420 |
In the book titled Vergil's political commentary in Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, the author examines Vergil’s political views by analyzing the whole of the poet’s work. He introduces the notion of the functional model suggesting that the poet often used this instrument when making a political statement. New interpretations of a number of the Eclogues and passages of the Georgics and the Aeneid are suggested and the author concludes that Vergil’s political engagement is visible in much of his work. During his whole career the poet was consistent in his views on several major political themes. These varied from, the distress caused by the violation of the countryside during and after the expropriations in the 40s B.C., to the horrors of the civil war and the violence of war in general, and the necessity of strong leadership. Vergil hoped and expected that Octavian would establish peace and order, and he supported a form of hereditary kingship for which he considered Octavian a suitable candidate. He held Cleopatra in high regard, and he appreciated a more meaningful role for women in society. Vergil wrote poetry that supported Augustus, but he had also the courage to criticize Octavian and his policies. He was a commentator with an independent mind and was not a member of Augustus’ putative propaganda machine.
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil
Title | The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 1846 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Georgics of Virgil
Title | The Georgics of Virgil PDF eBook |
Author | David Ferry |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | 133 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1466895063 |
John Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of human accomplishment in difficult--and beautiful--circumstances, and in the context of all we share in nature. The Georgics celebrates the crops, trees, and animals, and, above all, the human beings who care for them. It takes the form of teaching about this care: the tilling of fields, the tending of vines, the raising of the cattle and the bees. There's joy in the detail of Virgil's descriptions of work well done, and ecstatic joy in his praise of the very life of things, and passionate commiseration too, because of the vulnerability of men and all other creatures, with all they have to contend with: storms, and plagues, and wars, and all mischance. As Rosanna Warren noted about Ferry's work in The Threepenny Review, "We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away even as they continue breathing." This ebook edition includes only the English language translation of the Georgics.
Vergil's Eclogues. Edited by Katharina Volk
Title | Vergil's Eclogues. Edited by Katharina Volk PDF eBook |
Author | Katharina Volk |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2008-08-21 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0199202931 |
A collection of ten classic essays on Virgil's 'Eclogues', written between 1970 and 1999. The contributions represent recent developments in Virgilian scholarship, and are placed in context in a specially written introduction.