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Reading After Actium : Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome by Christopher Nappa is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><i>Reading after Actium</i> is a study of Vergil's <i>Georgics</i>, a didactic poem ostensibly about farming but in fact a brilliant exercise challenging readers to develop a broader perspective on the basic problems and the dangers of human life. Octavian is treated as one of the poet's students and given the opportunity to learn lessons in handling power, in controlling Rome's vast resources, and in preventing the bloody cycle of civil war from beginning again. Most of all the <i>Georgics</
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher Nappa
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780472025831
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Agriculture
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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