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Professor Ross presents the Georgics as a poem of science, of the power and ultimate failure of knowledge. Exploring the science that Virgil knew and used, he analyzes the oppositions and balances of lire and water, of the qualities of hot and cold, wet and dry, throughout the poem. These the farmer manipulates to create the balance necessary for growth, yet, in Virgil's universe, the potential for destruction inevitably results in a profound pessimism.
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David O. Ross is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan. He is author of "Style and Tradition in Catullus" (1969), "Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus, Elegy, and Rome" (1975), and "Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics" (1987).
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 069106699X
- ISBN 13 9780691066998
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages268
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