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- catalog abstract "Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet," and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian approach, this book draws on the new commentaries in English as well as on the work of the great German Virgilians of the past, and is written in the eloquent, accessible, and personal style for which its author has become known. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of the poem, discusses the sound of Virgil's hexameters, and treats each of the four georgics in detail, with special emphasis on the concluding myth of Orpheus. The most baffling of all Latin poems is shown in these pages to be Virgil's gift to Augustus, the most powerful man in the world as the salvational leader of the renewed Roman state, telling him what he must know about nature and about human nature if he is to rule the world well.".
- catalog contributor b9143983.
- catalog coverage "Rome In literature.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index.".
- catalog description "Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet," and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian approach, this book draws on the new commentaries in English as well as on the work of the great German Virgilians of the past, and is written in the eloquent, accessible, and personal style for which its author has become known. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of the poem, discusses the sound of Virgil's hexameters, and treats each of the four georgics in detail, with special emphasis on the concluding myth of Orpheus. The most baffling of all Latin poems is shown in these pages to be Virgil's gift to Augustus, the most powerful man in the world as the salvational leader of the renewed Roman state, telling him what he must know about nature and about human nature if he is to rule the world well.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 171 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Virgil as Orpheus.".
- catalog identifier "0791427838 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791427846 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Virgil as Orpheus.".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in classical studies".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog relation "Virgil as Orpheus.".
- catalog spatial "Rome In literature.".
- catalog subject "873/.01 20".
- catalog subject "Agriculture in literature.".
- catalog subject "Didactic poetry, Latin History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Orpheus (Greek mythological character) In literature.".
- catalog subject "Orpheus (Greek mythology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "PA6804.G4 L44 1996".
- catalog subject "Virgil Knowledge Mythology.".
- catalog subject "Virgil. Georgica.".
- catalog title "Virgil as Orpheus : a study of the Georgics / M. Owen Lee.".
- catalog type "text".