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God and the Land : The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199723997
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God and the LandDDC classification:
  • 871/.01
LOC classification:
  • PA4009.O7.N457 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Geneaological Table -- Translator's Note: Hesiod's Works and Days -- HESIOD'S WORKS AND DAYS -- INTRODUCTION: HESIOD, POET AND FARMER -- Hesiod's Time -- Hesiod's Town and Country -- Hesiod-Or Was He? -- 1. THE COMPOSITION OF HESIOD'S POEMS -- The Composition of the Theogony -- The Composition of the Works and Days -- The Farmer's Year -- 2. THE MYTHIC BACKGROUND -- Hesiod's Outlook -- Pandora and the Nature of Hardship -- The Five Ages: The History of Hardship -- Hesiod's Fable and the J ustice of Zeus -- 3. THE COMPOSITION OF THE GEORGICS: VERGIL'S FARM -- Roman Farming -- Vergil's Works and Days -- Vergil and the Animals -- 4. GOD -- The Divine Order -- Zeus and His Children -- The Theology of Farming -- The Gods of the Georgics -- The Georgic of Force -- The Georgic of Understanding -- 5. THE HUMAN CONTEXT -- Justice, Perception, and Farming -- The Balance of Justice -- The Place of Justice -- Force and Order: Vergil and Caesar -- The Third Georgic: The Problem of the Individual -- The Fourth Georgic: The Promise of the Whole -- 6. THE PLACE OF NATURE -- The City, the Farm, and Nature -- Orpheus and Aristaeus -- Hesiod and the Balance of Nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications.
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Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Geneaological Table -- Translator's Note: Hesiod's Works and Days -- HESIOD'S WORKS AND DAYS -- INTRODUCTION: HESIOD, POET AND FARMER -- Hesiod's Time -- Hesiod's Town and Country -- Hesiod-Or Was He? -- 1. THE COMPOSITION OF HESIOD'S POEMS -- The Composition of the Theogony -- The Composition of the Works and Days -- The Farmer's Year -- 2. THE MYTHIC BACKGROUND -- Hesiod's Outlook -- Pandora and the Nature of Hardship -- The Five Ages: The History of Hardship -- Hesiod's Fable and the J ustice of Zeus -- 3. THE COMPOSITION OF THE GEORGICS: VERGIL'S FARM -- Roman Farming -- Vergil's Works and Days -- Vergil and the Animals -- 4. GOD -- The Divine Order -- Zeus and His Children -- The Theology of Farming -- The Gods of the Georgics -- The Georgic of Force -- The Georgic of Understanding -- 5. THE HUMAN CONTEXT -- Justice, Perception, and Farming -- The Balance of Justice -- The Place of Justice -- Force and Order: Vergil and Caesar -- The Third Georgic: The Problem of the Individual -- The Fourth Georgic: The Promise of the Whole -- 6. THE PLACE OF NATURE -- The City, the Farm, and Nature -- Orpheus and Aristaeus -- Hesiod and the Balance of Nature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications.

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