In 37BC, Virgil had finished his pastoral poems, the Eclogues. Over the next eight years, living near Naples, he composed the four books of the Georgics. After this eulogy to home-grown virtues ...

‘Georgics’ means ‘agricultural things ... the ravages of time, and the politics of Virgil’s day. It’s exerted a profound influence on European writing about agriculture and rural ...

The three-inch-long pottery shard contains only parts of a passage from Virgil's Georgics. University of Cordoba Long before the modern-day novelty mug made its way into bookstores and gift shops ...

Virgil hated the instability. The wars affected everyone, even simple farmers. Forced to fight, their farms fell into neglect and ruin. In the “Georgics”, he mourned the ruined countryside.

The manuscript also includes portions of Virgil’s second major poem, “Georgics,” which is about agriculture and mankind’s struggle with nature. Virgil originally wrote “Georgics” and ...

The pace of poetic creativity could be very slow. The Georgics, an earlier poetic work by Virgil on the subject of agriculture (2,188 lines), seems to have been written at a rate of about one line ...

After his first two collections of pastoral poetry — “Bucolics” (also known as “Eclogues”) and “Georgics” — Virgil spent a dozen years working on “The Aeneid,” his epic account ...

The sovereign referred to Virgil who, he recalls, "perfectly understood the importance of the environment. "He was the father of sustainable agriculture if we can say so, in the Georgics he spoke ...

"Computer" comes from the Latin "putare" which means both to think and to prune. Virgil's Georgics - depictions of country life - speak of tidying vines by pruning (fingitque putando). The ...