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- catalog abstract ""Current orthodoxy interprets 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 which has dominated scholarship for the last quarter of a century. 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, a prerequisite of the foundation of Rome. 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, the most sublime available, and the providential world-view it was thought to embody."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11253714.
- catalog coverage "Rome History Civil War, 43 B.C.-31 B.C. Literature and the war.".
- catalog coverage "Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C. Literature and the war.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Current orthodoxy interprets 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 which has dominated scholarship for the last quarter of a century. 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, a prerequisite of the foundation of Rome.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-251) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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, the most sublime available, and the providential world-view it was thought to embody."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 255 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics.".
- catalog identifier "0521651662 (hb)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge classical studies".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog relation "Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Civil War, 43 B.C.-31 B.C. Literature and the war.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C. Literature and the war.".
- catalog spatial "Rome.".
- catalog subject "873/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Agriculture in literature.".
- catalog subject "Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. In literature.".
- catalog subject "Didactic poetry, Latin History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PA6804.G4 M67 1999".
- catalog subject "Political poetry, Latin History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Rome.".
- catalog subject "Redemption in literature.".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Virgil Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Virgil. Georgica.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Patterns of redemption in Virgil's Georgics / Llewelyn Morgan.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".