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Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics / Llewelyn Morgan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Llewelyn, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge classical studies.
- Cambridge classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Georgica.
- Virgil.
- Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D--In literature.
- Augustus.
- Virgil--Political and social views.
- Political poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Political poetry, Latin.
- Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Didactic poetry, Latin.
- Politics and literature--Rome.
- Politics and literature.
- Agriculture in literature.
- Redemption in literature.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Rome--History--Civil War, 43-31 B.C--Literature and the war.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the time of this book's first publication in 1999, orthodoxy interpreted the Georgics as a statement of profound ambivalence towards Octavian and his claim to be Rome's saviour after the catastrophe of the civil wars. This book takes issue with the model of the subtly subversive poet. It argues that in the turbulent political circumstances which obtained at the time of the poem's composition, Virgil's preoccupation with violent conflict has a highly optimistic import. Octavian's brutal conduct in the civil wars is subjected to a searching analysis, but is ultimately vindicated, refigured as a paradoxically constructive violence analogous to blood sacrifice or Romulus' fratricide of Remus. The vindication of Octavian also has strictly literary implications for Virgil. The close of the poem sees Virgil asserting his mastery of the Homeric mode of poetry and the providential world-view it was thought to embody.
- Contents:
- Part I, Prima ab origine. The old man of the sea ; Aristeia
- Part II, Mirabile dictu. Ox and paradox ; Poeta creatus
- Postscript. Sphragis
- Appendix I. Proteus and Prōteús [in Greek script]
- Appendix II. [Georgics and the Odyssey] 4.400
- Appendix III. Sparsere per agros.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-71067-7
- 1-139-88250-3
- 1-107-71277-7
- 0-521-15512-6
- 0-511-54941-5
- 1-107-71463-X
- 1-107-72011-7
- 1-107-71600-4
- 1-107-71823-6
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