Virgil 71 BCE-20 BCE creator text utu 1995 monographic la 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgics Release date is 1995-03-01 Original publication data not identified Didactic poetry, Latin Agriculture -- Poetry PA Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/231 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/231 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133029.0 231