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Description: Includes an excerpt from the Georgics and from the Aeneid, the latter heavily annotated.
Virgil's first full-scale poem - four books ostensibly about farming, which he wrote during the terrible civil war following the murder of Julius Caesar. Although Virgil's family had suffered during the fighting, he is supposed to have presented the completed Georgics (which he'd worked on at approximately a line a day) to the victorious Octavian. Its predominant theme shows agriculture as a metaphor for politics. Jupiter deliberately made life hard for man, so that he could redeem himself through hard work.
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