Vergil's Agricultural Golden Age

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Vergil's Agricultural Golden Age is written by Patricia A. Johnston and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004061118 (ISBN 10) and 9789004061118 (ISBN 13).

The Georgics have tended to be the last of Vergil's works to which a reader turns. Critical scholarslip, too, of the Georgics has been considerably less extensive than that devoted to Vergil's other works. One reason for their neglect may be the difficulty readers have had responding to their central topic, agriculture. Many critics who have dealt with the poem, moreover, influenced perhaps by Hesiod's treatment of this topic, have tended to see in it an emphasis on the harshness of agricultural labors rather than on the rewards of the farmer's life. -- Preface.