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The Georgics (Penguin Classics) (English and Latin Edition) Paperback – January 1, 1982

Latin Edition by Virgil (Author), L. P. Wilkinson (Author)
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Virgil's classic poem extols the virtues of work, describes the care of crops, trees, animals, and bees, and stresses the importance of moral values
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Virgil, born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years.
Betty Radice read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livy’s The War with Hannibal she translated Livy’s Rome and Italy, Pliny’s Letters, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise and Erasmus’s Praise of Folly, and also wrote the introduction to Horace’s Complete Odes and Epodes, all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbon’s Memoirs of My Life for the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Pliny’s works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference Book Who’s Who in the Ancient World. Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association. Betty Radice died in 1985.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Dual Language Edition (January 1, 1982)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, Latin
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140444149
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140444148
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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    Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuː.blɪ.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪ.lɪ.ʊs ˈma.roː]; October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him.

    Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy—in Roman mythology the founding act of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.

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  • Prime Member
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work, outstanding narrator
    Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2024
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    That Virgil's work and Charlton Griffin's narration are both extraordinary goes without saying. I would listen to and/or read everything either of them did.

    A side note: Have I missed it, or has the publisher hidden or left out the name of the translator in this amazon listing?
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  • Neville Dyson-hudson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2018
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    great! one can't have too many translations of the georgics
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  • Michael F. Griswold
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2015
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  • toronto
    5.0 out of 5 stars Huh?
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2013
    The reviews are from Mynor's commentary, which is not the Wilkinson Penguin.

    The Georgics is a deep work, all the more powerful in these days of environmental concern. Part of its merit is its meditation on what is and is not controllable in the human relationship with the land. It is hard to believe that someone could write so beautifully about soil and pigs and vines, but Virgil accomplishes this and much more. It has for two thousand years been one of the touchstones of western civilization, so might be worth a little of your time! The best parts are in book 4 -- the allegorical story of beekeeping, which (among other descendants) finds a later echo in Book 1 of Paradise Lost -- and the exquisite story of Orpheus and Eurydice, itself embedded in the story of Aristeus and Proteus.

    Wilkinson is one of the deans of Virgilian scholarship, and it shows here in his introduction (there could have been more notes -- for notes, head for Mynor), and the translation is accurate and in places quite beautiful in its own right. Of the other translations available, Lewis is an old favourite, but I am now fond of David Ferry's version. David Ross' book on the Physics and Poetry of the Georgics is worth having as a resource to hand.
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  • Charles Bane Jr.
    5.0 out of 5 stars "Roman Virgil"
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2008
    This is an extraordinarily beautiful edition of the poet's work translated by Dryden and published by the Heritage Press in 1953. The publisher shrewdly chose an Italian,Bruno Bramanti,to furnish illustrations that are grave and lovely.I prefer this translation by Dryden for its' structure,but there is an American-flavored rendering by Janet Lembke that is sensitive, and modern in the best sense of the word.That said,I find Dryden's trumpet of rhyme irresistible:
    What makes a plenteous harvest,when to turn
    The fruitful soil,and when to sow the corn;
    The care of sheep,of oxen and of kine,
    And how to raise on elms the teeming vine;
    The birth and genius of the frugal bee,
    I sing,Maecenas,and I sing to thee.

    The translation is majestic,stirring and timeless.It is a fair tribute to Tennyson's description of "Roman Virgil" as "the lord of language".You will seldom own a more beautiful book.
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  • Johannes Platonicus
    3.0 out of 5 stars "Not Virgil's Best"
    Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2002
    The warm and friendly poet from Mantua, Publius Virgilius Maro, in his didactic poem entitled the "Georgics," covers topics relating to farming: in book one he deals with crops, in book two trees and shrubs, in book three livestock, and in book four bees. While several scholars have regarded this work as one of the best Latin poems ever, it must be taken into account that it is, nevertheless, far less entertaining than his famous "Aenied," and much more difficult to read. At times, in the "Georgics," Virgil echoes with that same brilliance many people have come to love in the "Aenied." But for the most part, this poem may be rigorous for anyone not serious about Roman poetry, so it is not recommended for everyone. In context of Virgil's time, this poem easily gets five stars, but the many archaisms found in it tend to alienate modern readers, and so, with much hesitation, the poem receives only three.
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  • Constant Reader
    1.0 out of 5 stars The Kindle edition linked to this is NOT Mynors' commentary ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2015
    The Kindle edition linked to this is NOT Mynors' commentary, obviously. Nor is the supposed hardback link, which is a rip-off press of J. B. Greenough 1900. "What makes the cornfield smile," etc. Beware.
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  • S. Brunton
    3.0 out of 5 stars Mynors' commentary is essential. I'm posting this review in ...
    Reviewed in Canada on June 3, 2015
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    Mynors' commentary is essential. I'm posting this review in order to warn people that while the hardcover volume here is Mynors' commentary, the paperback option is not, and the Kindle is a translation that Mynors had nothing to do with.
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  • Andrew Norris
    5.0 out of 5 stars Virgil's Masterpiece
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    The majority of epic poems from the Classical era are heroic epics, depicting heroic kings and warriors going on fantastic adventures to faraway lands, much like the Chivalric tales of the 15th and 16th centuries. Virgil's better-known work, "The Aeneid", is one such example, but it is his "Georgics" which I consider to be his magnum opus.

    "The Georgics" is a celebration of country living during the Roman period, and gives a unique insight into life on a Roman country estate, something which has for so long been considered incomplete due to the lack of archaeological evidence and written documents.

    The fourth book of "The Georgics" is unique in being virtually the only known text from the Roman era dedicated to bee-keeping, another part of Roman life that academics and writers take for granted. It seems incredible that I, who bought this book to follow up a single, solitary reference in one textbook, could learn so much from what the lecturers considered to be very little.

    I encourage one and all to read "The Georgics" - it is well-written, it is gentle in its language, and it gives a very detailed insight into a way of life that has long since vanished.
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  • Phil
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2016
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    Good book. Thank you
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  • Costas Kalotaris
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2014
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    very good
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  • F MCLEAN
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2017
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    Very interesting to read.
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