Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic: The Art of Allusion in Literary History

by Joseph Farrell

Book Overview

In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls "analytic" allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067061
• ISBN13: 9780195067064
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"