Georgics

The Georgics, written in 29 BC, is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil. Its subject is rural life and farming and the work is generally categorized as a "didactic poem".

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The work contains 2188 hexametric verses divided into four books. Books one and two deal with agriculture (respectively crops and trees). Books three and four deal with the keeping of animals, book three concerned with different kinds of cattle breeding and book four especially with beekeeping. However, the didactic subject is merely the surface of the poem. The underlying theme is the beauty of the countryside.

29 BC: Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century...

Virgil: Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic....

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