Georgica

Written by Virgil

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Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC. His poem is a rich admixture of allusion to that tradition: didactic poem, eulogium of Augustus, the neoteric epyllion about Orpheus, Epicurean philosophy as presented by his predecessor and model, Lucretius. Thomas Jefferson imagined his gentleman farmer tilling his fields with a copy of the Georgics between the handles of the plowshare. (Summary by Malone)

• Language: Lingua latīna
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

Virgil

Virgil was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: TheEclogues, TheGeorgics, and TheAeneid.