Clearing the ground in Georgics 1

Beginning can be problematic for writer and destructive for farmer, as Vergil explores throughout the Georgics, in his uncertainty over a new course, in the bugonia, in the creation of new ploughland — and at the start of his didactic. supercilio at 1.108 does not refer to the brow of a hill or a ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heyworth, S
Other Authors: Freer, N
Format: Book section
Published: Bloomsbury Academic 2019