
By Monica R. Gale
Virgil's agricultural poem, the Georgics, varieties a part of a protracted culture of didactic epic going again to the archaic poet Hesiod. This publication explores the connection among the Georgics and past works within the didactic culture, quite Lucretius' De Rerum Natura ("On the character of Things"). it's the first complete examine of Virgil's use of Lucretian topics, imagery, rules and language; it additionally proposes a brand new interpreting of the poem as a complete, as a war of words among the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing international perspectives of his predecessors.