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The outdoor life in Greek and Roman Poets, and kindred studies
Title:
The outdoor life in Greek and Roman Poets, and kindred studies
Author:
Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa, 1852-1931.
Publication Information:
London : Macmillan, 1911.
Physical Description:
ix, 290 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
"The chapters were published separately in the Contemporary review."
Language:
English
Contents:
The peasant of ancient Greece.--Husbandry in the Greek dramatists.--The Attic homestead.--The last Greek peasant.--Nature in the earlier Roman poets.--A prose source of the Georgics.--Virgil in the country.--Tibullus at his farm.--Ovid and the natural world.--The Roman's villeggiatura.--Nature in the last Latin poets.--Transformation.--The divine pastoral.--Puer parvulus.--The modern pastoral in Italy.
Format :
Book