Virgil's elements : physics and poetry in the Georgics /

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...

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Main Author: Ross, David O. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1987
Princeton, NJ : [2014]
Edition:Course Book
Series:Princeton legacy library ; 786
Princeton legacy library
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