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Title: Georgica
Author: Virgil
Narrator: Malone
Length: 3 hrs 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 3/12/2015
Publisher: LibriVox
Genres: Foreign Language Titles, Other
Publisher's Summary:
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)