Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics ed. by Bobby Xinyue and Nicholas Freer (review)
According to Italo Calvino, "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." The Georgics does not want for scholarly attention, yet the editors make a virtue out of the bibliographical amplitude, and the orientation they provide in the introduction constitutes one...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Classical world 2020, Vol.113 (2), p.238-239 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | According to Italo Calvino, "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." The Georgics does not want for scholarly attention, yet the editors make a virtue out of the bibliographical amplitude, and the orientation they provide in the introduction constitutes one of the book's many strengths. [...]Braund reviews adaptations and translations of the Georgics by female poets of the last century: |
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| ISSN: | 0009-8418 1558-9234 1558-9234 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/clw.2020.0015 |