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Georgics logo #10101) Poetry by Virgil
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Georgics

Georgics logo #21000 The Georgics (s; Georgica ɡɛˈoːrɡɪka) is a poem in four books, likely published in 29 BC. It is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. It is a poem that draws on many prior sources and influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present. As the name suggests (from the Greek wo...
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Georgics

Georgics logo #21003(from the article `Virgil`) ...a countryman, would be most intensely aware—was the depopulation of rural Italy. The farmers had been obliged to go to the war, and their farms ... The influence of Lucretius on Virgil was pervasive, especially in Virgil`s Georgics; and it is in clear allusion to Lucretius that Virgil wrote ... Thi...
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Georgics

Georgics logo #20166Poems about farming or farmers. The term derives from Virgil's carmina georgica.
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