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The
Georgics
has for more than twenty years been a source of
fierce
controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or
pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter
critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the
ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going
engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus
and – above all – Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological
approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, Monica
Gale shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to
scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration
of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns
in the
Georgics
forms the basis for a reading of Virgil’s poem as an extended
meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods
and the natural environment.
    
is a Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. She is
the author of
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
().
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VI G I L O N
T HE NA TU E OF
THINGS
The
Georgics,
Lucretius and
the Didactic Tradition
Monica . Gale
Trinity College, Dublin
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Gale, Monica.
Virgil on the nature of things: the Georgics, Lucretius, and the didactic tradition/
Monica R. Gale.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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(hardback)
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Virgil. Georgica.
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Didactic poetry, Latin – History and criticism.
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Lucretius
Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus – Influence.
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Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
.
Virgil – Knowledge – Literature.
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Rome – In literature.
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Virgil – Philosophy.
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Intertextuality.
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Allusion.
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