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The Georgics

Author
Virgil
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
2 hours 43 minutes
ISBN
9781802568424
Published
26 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Virgil
  • Georgics
  • Aeneid
  • Troyan Horse
  • Iliad
  • epic
  • journey
  • troy
  • war
  • ancient

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Description

Virgil’s four-book poem on farming: crops, livestock, and beekeeping woven with allegory and myth. Practical counsel for working the land, and a larger hymn to peace through harmony with earth. Spoken as usable agricultural poetry when guidance and wonder share the same furrow and the seasons still keep score.

Author

Virgil (70–19 BCE) was born near Mantua, studied in Milan, Rome, and Naples, and wrote under the shadow of Augustus. The Eclogues are pastoral with a political weather; the Aeneid is Rome's epic of a man who leaves a burning city and must found another. Duty, piety, and the cost of a future: Aeneas carries them like luggage he cannot put down. Virgil died at Brundisium with the poem, tradition says, still unfinished.

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