The Georgics Audiobook by Virgil

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/49/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Georgics Author: Virgil Narrator: Charlton Griffin Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 05-21-07 Publisher: Audio Connoisseur Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 35 votes Genres: Classics, Greek & Roman Publisher's Summary: Virgil used the Greek poet Hesiod as his guide for describing why the cheerful acceptance of laboring on a farm was salutary. (Hesiod's Works and Days is an attempt by the poet to explain to an estranged brother why his work on the family farm would make him a better person.) As for an understanding of one's place in the universe, Virgil used as his model the Epicurean philosophy in the poetry of his fellow Roman, Lucretius. But although Virgil absorbed the incredible poetry of both Hesiod and Lucretius, he did not copy them. His work is entirely his own. The Georgics is an amazing synthesis of the scientific and the spiritual, which continues to amaze us to this day. This great poem is organized into four parts, or books. Its ostensible subject is farming and the correct seasons for the various chores of the farmer: the cultivation of vines and the planting of trees, farm animals and their diseases, and, finally, how to care for bees. Though Virgil claims that his aim is to teach, the real result is to inspire us with the genius of his poetic ability. Critic Reviews: "The best poem of the best poet." (John Dryden) "The most accomplished work of poetry." (Michel de Montaigne)

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