Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: influence, allusion, intertextuality
- 2 Beginnings and endings
- 3 The gods, the farmer and the natural world
- 4 Virgil's metamorphoses: mythological allusions
- 5 Labor improbus
- 6 The wonders of the natural world
- 7 The cosmic battlefield: warfare and military imagery
- 8 Epilogue: the philosopher and the farmer
- Bibliography
- Index of passages cited
- General index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: influence, allusion, intertextuality
- 2 Beginnings and endings
- 3 The gods, the farmer and the natural world
- 4 Virgil's metamorphoses: mythological allusions
- 5 Labor improbus
- 6 The wonders of the natural world
- 7 The cosmic battlefield: warfare and military imagery
- 8 Epilogue: the philosopher and the farmer
- Bibliography
- Index of passages cited
- General index
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- Virgil on the Nature of ThingsThe Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000