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Professor Ross presents the Georgics as a poem of science, of the power and ultimate failure of knowledge. Exploring the science that Virgil knew and used, he analyzes the oppositions and balances of lire and water, of the qualities of hot and cold, wet and dry, throughout the poem. These the farmer manipulates to create the balance necessary for g



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO: BOOK I, pg. 32*CHAPTER THREE: BOOK II, pg. 95*CHAPTER FOUR: BOOK III, pg. 149*CHAPTER FIVE: BOOK IV, pg. 188*CHAPTER SIX: AN OVERVIEW, pg. 234*BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, pg. 243*INDEX LOCORUM, pg. 249*INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM, pg. 253

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691609737, 978-0691609737
      ISBN10: 069160973X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Professor Ross presents the Georgics as a poem of science, of the power and ultimate failure of knowledge. Exploring the science that Virgil knew and used, he analyzes the oppositions and balances of lire and water, of the qualities of hot and cold, wet and dry, throughout the poem. These the farmer manipulates to create the balance necessary for g



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO: BOOK I, pg. 32*CHAPTER THREE: BOOK II, pg. 95*CHAPTER FOUR: BOOK III, pg. 149*CHAPTER FIVE: BOOK IV, pg. 188*CHAPTER SIX: AN OVERVIEW, pg. 234*BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, pg. 243*INDEX LOCORUM, pg. 249*INDEX NOMINUM ET RERUM, pg. 253

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