Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome
Leah (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Kronenberg
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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This book shows that Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Varro's De Re Rustica and Virgil's Georgics are not simply works on farming but in fact belong to a tradition of philosophical satire which uses allegory and irony to question the meaning of morality and the right way to live.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521517263
- ISBN-10
- 0521517265
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Publication date
- 2009-05-14
- Pages
- 236
- Dimensions
- 159x235x18
- Weight
- 522