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God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil Book

God and the Land : Paperback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195373349 : 0195373340 : 01 Jan 2009 : In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and ...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human...

  • Pickabook

    Stephanie Nelson, David Grene

  • 0195373340
  • 9780195373349
  • Stephanie Nelson, David Grene
  • 1 January 2009
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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