Georgica
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)
Genre(s): Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Historical Fiction, Poetry
Language: Latin
Keyword(s): agriculture (29), Latin Literature (21), Virgil (10), Vergil (3), Didactic Poetry (3), augustan age (1)
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | 01 - Liber primus, pars prima | Malone |
00:23:28 |
| Play 02 | 02 - Liber primus, pars secunda | Malone |
00:23:33 |
| Play 03 | 03 - Liber secundus pars prima | Malone |
00:24:26 |
| Play 04 | 04 - Liber secundus, pars secunda | Malone |
00:26:11 |
| Play 05 | 05 - Liber tertius, pars prima | Malone |
00:26:07 |
| Play 06 | 06 - Liber tertius, pars secunda | Malone |
00:26:46 |
| Play 07 | 07 - Liber quartus, pars prima | Malone |
00:26:12 |
| Play 08 | 08 - Liber quartus, pars secunda | Malone |
00:26:45 |