01556cam a22003253u 4500 231 UtSlPG 20260610133029.0 m cr n 260607r1995||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG la iso639-1 PA Virgil, 71 BCE-20 BCE Georgicon The Georgics Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1995 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgics Release date is 1995-03-01 "Georgicon" by Virgil is a poem likely published in 29 BCE. This work presents agriculture not as peaceful pastoral verse but as humanity's struggle against a hostile natural world. Divided into four books, it covers crop cultivation, viticulture, animal husbandry, and beekeeping. Through technical instruction and mythological tales—including the stories of Aristaeus and Orpheus—Virgil explores tensions between human labor and nature's power, golden ages and present realities, rural virtue and urban corruption, weaving didactic purpose with epic drama. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Didactic poetry, Latin Agriculture -- Poetry https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/231 42361 42361