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100 1 _aVirgil,
_d71 BCE-20 BCE
245 1 0 _aGeorgicon
246 1 _aThe Georgics
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1995
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgics
500 _aRelease date is 1995-03-01
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aDidactic poetry, Latin
653 _aAgriculture -- Poetry
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/231
999 _c42361
_d42361