Georgics (Oxford World's Classics)

Georgics (Oxford World's Classics)

Virgil

Language: English

Pages: 160

ISBN: 0199538832

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Virgil's affectionate poem of the land brings us the disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman's year-round devotion to his crops, his vines and olives, livestock great and small, and the complex society of his bees. Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, The Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, allowing the reader to feel the sights, sounds, and textures of the ancient Italian landscape.
This lauded new translation has been written by Peter Fallon, who, as a farmer and a poet, is uniquely suited to the task. It is coupled here with an introduction and notes by the classical scholar Elaine Fantham. Fantham's introduction considers Virgil's life and poetry in its historical context, while her notes gloss the many classical and mythological allusions. The combination of a faithful and lyrical translation with well-researched contextual information makes this edition the best possible introduction to Virgil's masterpiece. It is sure to delight all lovers of poetry and Renaissance literature.

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Pharsalus; Pompey assassinated by Egyptian king. Caesar in Egypt until 47. 44 15 March: assassination of Caesar. Octavian declared his heir, supported by the Senate against Mark Antony. 43 ‘Second’ triumvirate of Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus. 42 Octavian and Antony defeat Brutus and Cassius at Philippi. 41 Octavian besieges and sacks Perusia, held by supporters of Antony, and begins confiscation of land from northern cities to settle his veterans. 40 Virgil’s 4th Eclogue honours Pollio’s

the tiller a length of beech to steer it from behind. Hung in the hearth, smoke will season wood components. I could, if I’d not seen you back away from such concerns, regale you with a store of ancient learning. To begin: grade the threshing floor with the heavy roller, taking pains to tamp it tight with chalk so that no growth breaks through and it holds firm and doesn’t 180 crumble. Let no blights of pests or parasites squat there; 12 Book One lines 182–207 for often, underground,

men beware of ? Or, say, when spring comes tumbling down in showers and crops of corn are tall already, their green stalks standing proud with sap? How often I have seen, just as the farmer’s driven in to reap the flaxen field and top the fragile barley crop, the clash of squalls and gales in battle mode as they ripped up from roots the swathes of ripe and ready corn and held them up, the way malefic whirlwinds 320 toss beardless stalks around the place, hither and yon. At other times a

slabs and broken tiles to offer them protection from the pouring rain or, even, on those days the Dog Star’s heat intensifies to parch and crack the soil. When you’ve your seedlings put to bed you’ve still to go over the ground, time and again, up to where the vine appears, scuffling soil with your clawed hoe, to plough the earth steadily and steer your straining oxen up and down the vineyard rows. Then prepare the pliant reeds, whittled sticks and stakes of ash, the sturdy forked supports

remembering? Bacchus! He it was who gave cause to crime, he who smote the maddened Centaurs* with a mortal blow––Rhoecus, Pholus, and Hylaeus, the one who’d deranged the Lapiths with a power of wine. If they but knew! They’re steeped in luck, country people, being far removed from grinds of war, where earth that’s just showers them with all that they could ever ask for. 460 So what if he hasn’t a mansion with gates designed to impress and callers traipsing in and out all morning long. So

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