Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with
Hesiod in the eighth c. BC. His poem is a rich admixture of allusion to that tradition: didactic poem, eulogium
of Augustus, the neoteric epyllion about Orpheus, Epicurean philosophy as presented by his predecessor and
model, Lucretius. Thomas Jefferson imagined his gentleman farmer tilling his fields with a copy of the
Georgics between the handles of the plowshare. (Summary by Malone)
Hesiod in the eighth c. BC. His poem is a rich admixture of allusion to that tradition: didactic poem, eulogium
of Augustus, the neoteric epyllion about Orpheus, Epicurean philosophy as presented by his predecessor and
model, Lucretius. Thomas Jefferson imagined his gentleman farmer tilling his fields with a copy of the
Georgics between the handles of the plowshare. (Summary by Malone)
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