David O. Virgil's Elements

Physics and Poetry in the Georgics
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5862-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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 growth, yet, in Virgil's universe, the potential for destruction inevitably results in a profound pessimism.

Originally published in 1987.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

David O., Ross

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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