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1994-95. Titles A-D
Author: Bowker Editorial Staff
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: 9780835235037
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1994-95. Titles A-D
Author: Bowker Editorial Staff
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: 9780835235037
Category:
Page: 13800
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An Index to the Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Publisher: N.A
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Category: American literature
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Author: Llewelyn Morgan,Morgan Llewelyn,University Lecturer in Classical Language and Literature Llewelyn Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521651660
Category: History
Page: 255
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This book is a study of one of the most famous poems of Roman literature, Virgil's Georgics. By close reading of selected passages in the poem it seeks to understand the work in terms of the cultural and political upheavals that were afflicting Rome at the time of its composition. The poem, it argues, constitutes an audacious attempt to explain and justify the violent civil wars that had recently brought Octavian (the future Augustus, with whom Virgil was closely associated) to power in Rome.Plants, Humans, and the Divine
Author: Rebecca Armstrong
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199236682
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 352
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The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the occasional symbolic set-piece. This volume joins the growing field of nature-centred studies of literature, looking head-on at Vergil's plants and trees to reveal how fundamental they are to an understanding of the poet's outlook on religion, culture, and mankind's place within the world. Divided into two parts, the first explores the religious and more diffusely numinous aspects of Vergil's plants, from awe-inspiring sacred groves to divinely promoted fields of corn, and shows how both cultivated and uncultivated plants fit within and help to shape the complex landscape of Vergilian (and, more broadly, Roman) religious thought. In the second half of the book, the focus shifts towards human interactions with plants from the perspectives of both cultivation and relaxation, exploring the love-hate relationship with vegetation which sometimes supports and sometimes contests the human self-image as the world's dominant species. Combining a series of close readings of a wide range of passages with the identification of broader patterns of association, Vergil's Green Thoughts appositely reveals and celebrates the complexity and variety of Vergilian flora.
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Publisher: N.A
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Author: Simon Hornblower,Antony Spawforth,Esther Eidinow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199545561
Category: History
Page: 1592
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Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and teachers of classics and for anyone with an interest in the classical era.
Author: N.A
Publisher: N.A
ISBN: 9780835221061
Category: Monographic series
Page: 9945
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ISBN: N.A
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