Georgica
by Virgil
Chapter 1 of 8 01 - Liber primus, pars prima
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- Running time
- 3 h 23 min
- Language
- Latin
- Read by
- Malone (1945 - 2023)
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About this recording
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)