Virgil on the Nature of Things: The "Georgics", Lucretius, and the Didactic Tradition

Preface List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: influence, allusion, intertextuality 2. Beginnings and endings 3. The gods, the farmer and the natural world 4. Virgil's metamorphoses: mythological allusions 5. Labor improbus 6. The wonders of the natural world 7. The cosmic battlefield: warfare and military imagery 8. Epilogue: the philosopher and the farmer Bibliography Indexes.