By Kronenberg

ISBN-10: 0521517265

ISBN-13: 9780521517263

during this booklet Professor Kronenberg exhibits that Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Varro's De Re Rustica and Virgil's Georgics aren't easily works on farming yet belong to a practice of philosophical satire which makes use of allegory and irony to question the which means of morality. those works metaphorically attach farming and its comparable arts to political existence; yet rather than proposing farming in its conventional guise as a favorable image, they use it to version the deficiencies of the lively existence, which in flip is juxtaposed to a popular contemplative lifestyle. even supposing those 3 texts are usually not frequently handled jointly, this publication convincingly connects them with an unique and provocative interpretation in their allegorical use of farming. It additionally fills a big hole in our realizing of the literary affects at the Georgics by means of displaying that it really is formed not only via its poetic predecessors yet via philosophical dialogue.

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