The struggling farmer: the literary function of some allusions to the Georgics in the Aeneid
In this article I identify a major function of allusion to the Georgics in Vergil's later poem the Aeneid. I argue that pity for various characters or groups in the epic is evoked by associating them with the figure of the struggling farmer from the earlier text. Some of the allusions which I c...
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2007
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