Bucolica / Georgica

In Virgil's Bucolica, a collection of ten poems in hexameter, shepherds sing about singing and love, and in the process, also take note of the Roman civil wars. The Georgica, also in hexameter, is structured as a systematic textbook for farmers, but between the lines, the poems can be read as a 'mirror for the sovereign,' directed at Augustus. Niklas Holzberg has translated both works into metrical modern German.

Year

2016

Language

German

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Editions

3

Pages

334

ISBN

9783110435771

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