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God and the Land : The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil by Stephanie A. Nelson and David Grene (1998, Hardcover)
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195117409
ISBN-139780195117400
eBay Product ID (ePID)716960
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Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGod and the Land : the Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Religion, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Poetry, Ancient & Classical, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year1998
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephanie A. Nelson, David Grene
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN97-013801
Reviews"God and the Land...offers perceptive readings in clear prose. Englishtranslations precede all citations from Latin and Greek. Nelson's discussion,which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction forundergraduates."--Religious Studies Review, "[A] sensitive reading of the Works and Days and the Georgics.... This book deserves careful reading and the highest admiration."--The Journal of Religion, "...helpful insights here into two fascinating poems."--New England Classical Journal"God and the Land...offers perceptive readings in clear prose. English translations precede all citations from Latin and Greek. Nelson's discussion, which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction for undergraduates."--Religious Studies Review"...helpful insights here into two fascinating poems."--New England Classical Journal"God and the Land...offers perceptive readings in clear prose. English translations precede all citations from Latin and Greek. Nelson's discussion, which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction for undergraduates."--Religious Studies Review"[A] sensitive reading of the Works and Days and the Georgics.... This book deserves careful reading and the highest admiration."--The Journal of Religion, "...helpful insights here into two fascinating poems."--New England Classical Journal"God and the Land...offers perceptive readings in clear prose. English translations precede all citations from Latin and Greek. Nelson's discussion, which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction for undergraduates."--Religious Studies Review, "...helpful insights here into two fascinating poems."--New England Classical Journal "God and the Land...offers perceptive readings in clear prose. English translations precede all citations from Latin and Greek. Nelson's discussion, which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction for undergraduates."--Religious Studies Review, "God and the Land...offers perceptive readings in clear prose. English translations precede all citations from Latin and Greek. Nelson's discussion, which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction for undergraduates."--Religious Studies Review, "...helpful insights here into two fascinating poems."-- New England Classical Journal " God and the Land ...offers perceptive readings in clear prose. English translations precede all citations from Latin and Greek. Nelson's discussion, which always begins with basics, would be a useful introduction for undergraduates."-- Religious Studies Review
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SynopsisIn 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 religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense., The Works and Days of Hesiod and Vergil's Georgics are fundamental texts in the classical canon. Here Nelson brings them together with a metaphysical eye, showing how the two writers each viewed the farming lifestyle as a system of belief unto itself. She represents the ethos of the farm as a way of understanding the earth, the gods, and man between them in vital relation to each other. This study also includes a sparkling new translation of Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene., God and the Land argues that farming, to both Hesiod and Vergil, meant not merely a way of making a living, but a way of life with deep ethical and religious implications., 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 religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days , and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
LC Classification NumberPA4009.O7N45 1998
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