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Virgil - Georgica

Virgil - Georgica

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 Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC. His poem is a rich admixture of allusion to that tradition: didactic poem, eulogium of Augustus, the neoteric epyllion about Orpheus, Epicurean philosophy as presented by his predecessor and model, Lucretius. Thomas Jefferson imagined his gentleman farmer tilling his fields with a copy of the Georgics between the handles of the plowshare. (Summary by Malone)Copyright Audiobooks by Librivox
Episodes
  • 08 - Liber quartus, pars secunda

    08 - Liber quartus, pars secunda
    Apr 18 2026
    27 mins
  • 07 - Liber quartus, pars prima

    07 - Liber quartus, pars prima
    Apr 18 2026
    26 mins
  • 06 - Liber tertius, pars secunda

    06 - Liber tertius, pars secunda
    Apr 18 2026
    27 mins
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