"Thibodeau examines Virgil's representations, often fanciful and fictitious, of farming and of rural life in general, of the labor and leisure that help define survival on the land. With commanding learning and with a gifted critic's taste and judgment, he aligns the "Georgics" against ancient writing on agronomy to illustrate how Virgil brilliantly manipulates his sources, and how in turn his innovations affected the work of later writers influenced by his authority."--Michael Putnam, author of "Virgil's Poem of the Earth" ...
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"Thibodeau examines Virgil's representations, often fanciful and fictitious, of farming and of rural life in general, of the labor and leisure that help define survival on the land. With commanding learning and with a gifted critic's taste and judgment, he aligns the "Georgics" against ancient writing on agronomy to illustrate how Virgil brilliantly manipulates his sources, and how in turn his innovations affected the work of later writers influenced by his authority."--Michael Putnam, author of "Virgil's Poem of the Earth" "By using the interesting concept of 'economic fantasy, ' Thibodeau rightly avoids separating (as many had done) form and farm, culture and agriculture in his new discussion of Vergil's agrarian poem."--Alessandro Barchiesi, editor of "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies"
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