Georgiche
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Composti tra il 37 e il 30 a.C., i quattro libri delle Georgiche si inseriscono nella fortunata tradizione del poema didascalico, traendo ispirazione dalle opere di Esiodo e Lucrezio, Catone e Varrone. L’originalità e la genialità di Virgilio si esprimono nella capacità di trasformare l’arida lettera della disciplina agronomica in un’epopea del lavoro umano, in particolare delle attività agresti – dalla coltivazione dei campi a quella della vite, dall’allevamento all’apicoltura –, conforme all’ideologia augustea, che predicava un ritorno al costume dei padri e alla terra dopo molti anni di guerre civili.
- ISBN: 8811362725
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 304
- Data di uscita: 31-05-2009
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A very different experience then the public domain translation I read earlier. Wilkinson was just really helpful. He has what I thought was a great introduction. And his translation is easy to follow. When I read the other version I spent all my effort just trying to understand the sentence I was re Leggi tutto
Politics and agriculture, an interesting mix especially when it comes to the topic of animal husbandry.
Allow me to clarify those stars you see above. I love Virgil, with all of my heart. His depth is devastating and his verse, in the original Latin, is uncanny. Before Shakespeare he was the definition of greatness. And I love the Georgics. For some people, the Aeneid will always be the end of the dis Leggi tutto
The Georgics, composed between 37 and 30 bce (the final period of the civil wars), is a superb plea for the restoration of the traditional agricultural life of Italy. In form it is didactic, but, as Seneca later said, it was written “not to instruct farmers but to delight readers.” The practical ins Leggi tutto
I studied Latin in high school and we read the Aeneid - Cano armorum virumque. I sing of arms and men. It was so much better that the tortures of Cicero's Oration Against Cataline that we had to read the previous year. But as much as I have fond memories of the Aeneid, I wish we had read the Georgic Leggi tutto
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