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georgic
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geor·gic  (jôrjk)
adj. also geor·gi·cal (-j-kl)
Of or relating to agriculture or rural life.
n.
A poem concerning farming or rural life.

[Latin gergicus, from Greek gergikos, from gergos, farmer : ge-, geo- + ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots.]

georgic [ˈdʒɔːdʒɪk]
adj
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) Literary agricultural
n
(Literature / Poetry) a poem about rural or agricultural life
[from Latin geōrgicus, from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos farmer, from land, earth + -ourgos, from ergon work]


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Alpers understands Virgil's Eclogues as recalling the past for collective memory, "convention is the form community takes in the absence of a hero" (1986, 58), but Virgil provides more than a few hints in both the Eclogues and the Georgics that their hero will not be absent for long.
The epyllion with which the Georgics concludes uses Cyrene as a means of testing didactic writing, and sets up problems that would ultimately challenge the assumptions and practices of the humanist editors, commentators, and illustrators who guided the poem into print.
In this useful monograph Venier investigates the history of Vergil's text (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) as it was transmitted in the first fifty years of printed editions from Bussi's editio princeps (Rome [1469]) down to the fourth Aldine edition (Venice [1519]).
 
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