Georgics

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Georgics is a didactic poem by the Roman poet Virgil that offers instruction on agriculture while reflecting on rural life, labor, and the relationship between humans and nature.

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instanceOf Latin poem
didactic poem
poem
associatedWithPeriod Augustan age
author Virgil
Book1Focus arable farming and weather signs
Book2Focus trees and viticulture
Book3Focus animal husbandry
Book4Focus beekeeping and the Aristaeus myth
canonicalStatus major work of Latin literature
circulation widely read in antiquity
compositionEndTime c. 29 BC
compositionStartTime c. 37 BC
countryOfOrigin Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
dedicatedTo Maecenas
follows Eclogues
genre didactic poetry
pastoral poetry
hasPart Georgics self-linksurface differs
surface form: Book 1 of the Georgics

Georgics self-linksurface differs
surface form: Book 2 of the Georgics

Georgics self-linksurface differs
surface form: Book 3 of the Georgics

Georgics self-linksurface differs
surface form: Book 4 of the Georgics
historicalContext early reign of Augustus
influenced English Augustan poetry
European Renaissance poetry
later pastoral literature
influencedBy Aratus of Soli
surface form: Aratus

Hesiod
Lucretius
Hesiod's Works and Days
surface form: Works and Days
literaryForm poetry
literaryMovement Silver Age of Latin literature
surface form: Augustan poetry
mainTheme agriculture
human relationship with nature
labor
rural life
metricalForm dactylic hexameter
notableFeature blend of practical instruction and philosophical reflection
complex tone combining optimism and pessimism
use of mythological exempla
numberOfBooks 4
precedes Virgil's Aeneid
surface form: Aeneid
setIn idealized Italian countryside
subjectMatter animal husbandry
beekeeping
farming
viticulture
writtenInLanguage Latin

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Virgil notableWork Georgics
Aristaeus source Georgics
this entity surface form: Virgil's Georgics
Augustan age hasMainWork Georgics
myth of Orpheus and Eurydice earliestMajorSource Georgics
this entity surface form: Virgil’s Georgics
myth of Orpheus and Eurydice majorSource Georgics
this entity surface form: Virgil’s Georgics Book 4
Eurydice appearsIn Georgics
this entity surface form: Virgil’s Georgics
Trivia influencedBy Georgics
this entity surface form: Virgil’s Georgics
Eclogues followedBy Georgics
Georgics hasPart Georgics self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Book 1 of the Georgics
Georgics hasPart Georgics self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Book 2 of the Georgics
Georgics hasPart Georgics self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Book 3 of the Georgics
Georgics hasPart Georgics self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Book 4 of the Georgics