Cover of Georgics

Georgics

by Virgil

Chapter 1 of 14 Book 1, Part 1:The Invocation; Spring Ploughing; Treatment of the Land; Irrigation; The Beginnings of Agriculture

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Running time
2 h 52 min
Language
English
Readers
Cavaet, KevinB, Lucy Kempton, Phil Schempf, Shreya Sethi
Translated by
Harriet Waters Preston

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About this recording

Virgil's Georgics are the second of the three major poetic works ascribed to the poet. It was published probably around 29 BC and, as the name suggests, the subject of the poem is agriculture. Divided into four books, it is also the shortest of Virgil's main poetry, with only 2188 hexametric verses. The poem draws on a variety of prior sources and has influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present. - Summary by Leni