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Essay Archive - Hesiod's "Works and Days" and Virgil's "The Georgics": Working the Land
Hesiod's "Works and Days" and Virgil's "The Georgics": Working the Land
To work the land as a form of living and to gain sustenance as a result of
this work, this is the issue addressed by both Hesiod in Works and Days and
Virgil in The Georgics. However, while each poet advocates the same
lifestyle, each poet's true meaning lies in what they hope to achieve
through an agricultural existence. For Hesiod, a bucolic existence is a
means of attaining plentiful stores, making life easier both socially and
physica....
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