Virgil’s Georgics

Miles, Gary B.

doi:10.1525/9780520327740

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“…1.1: The Society of the Bees society, see Putnam 1972, 56-7;Miles 1980, 226-55. Ross (1987 views the bees as a paradigm first for "primitive society" (1987,189), and from 4.149 "mature society" (1987,207).…”

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Virum Volitare Per Ora: Genre And Poetic Immortality In Vergil’s Georgics

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<p>It is a curious thing that the poet who once demurred in Callimachean fashion to sing reges et proelia (Ecl. 6.3) should begin his magnum opus with a bold declaration of generic allegiance to Homeric epic: arma uirumque cano (Aen. 1.1). It must have struck Vergil too. For, in the poem which falls between these two works, the Georgics, he engages in an extended self-referential discourse to explain the evolution of his poetic programme. The poem’s metageneric discourse is central to its meaning. And so, in this thesis, I will explore how Vergil reconciles his earlier aesthetic commitment with his intention to compose epic. Critical to his poetic self-fashioning is the notion of poetic immortality, and the desire to be a Roman poet by writing on Roman themes.</p>

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