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Hackett Classics Ser.: Georgics by Virgil (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- ISBN
- 9780872206090
- Book Title
- Georgics
- Book Series
- Hackett Classics Ser.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 5.5 in
- Genre
- Poetry, History
- Topic
- Ancient / Rome, Ancient & Classical, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 174 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0872206092
ISBN-13
9780872206090
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2218886
Product Key Features
Book Title
Georgics
Number of Pages
174 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / Rome, Ancient & Classical, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Poetry, History
Book Series
Hackett Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
5.5 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
0.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2001-051547
Reviews
This is a translation with a difference, intended for readers without Latin. The most striking feature is the use of variations of type and layout. . . . Invocations are set out like memorial inscriptions; tasks or points to look for in animals come in the form of numbered or bulleted lists, assembling a plough reads like an instruction manual. Similes appear in italics, but so do the key words in some descriptive passages. The positioning of the text is used to illustrate the meaning of a quincunx, terracing, or the flight of a swarm of bees. These innovations serve to distinguish between what might be termed the poetry and the practical. Explanations are sometimes incorporated into the translation, which is in free verse, but mostly these are in the generous footnotes. . . . Chew has done considerable research into ancient and modern methods of husbandry and the notes concentrate on agriculture, astronomy, and botany. . . . Some [renderings] are particularly apt: 'the cicadas' complaining plainsong bursts the strawberry trees' for 'cantu querulae rumpent arbusta cicadae;' 'the murmur of the groves grows and grows' for 'et nemorum increbescere murmur.' . . . Chew should certainly achieve her aim of bringing the work to a wider readership. As she claims in her Introduction, 'Plain and simple, it is an American Georgics .' _—Anne Haward, The Joint Association of Classical Teachers Review, Chew's translation is, both in aesthetic and scholarly terms, an excellent piece of work. I find her approach refreshing and true to the spirit of the Georgics ; her adventurousness strikes me as just the thing to rescue the poem from the appearance of blandness that a more straightforward style of translationese would inevitably, but misleadingly, impose upon it. This Georgics does not read much like any previous version of it. Chew helps the English reader to get a sense of Virgil's avant-garde poetics, which is the main thing that almost all translators of the Georgics work to eliminate, if indeed they are even aware of it. First-rate. --Joseph Farrell, Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, This is a translation with a difference, intended for readers without Latin. The most striking feature is the use of variations of type and layout. . . . Invocations are set out like memorial inscriptions; tasks or points to look for in animals come in the form of numbered or bulleted lists, assembling a plough reads like an instruction manual. Similes appear in italics, but so do the key words in some descriptive passages. The positioning of the text is used to illustrate the meaning of a quincunx, terracing, or the flight of a swarm of bees. These innovations serve to distinguish between what might be termed the poetry and the practical. Explanations are sometimes incorporated into the translation, which is in free verse, but mostly these are in the generous footnotes. . . . Chew has done considerable research into ancient and modern methods of husbandry and the notes concentrate on agriculture, astronomy, and botany. . . . Some [renderings] are particularly apt: 'the cicadas' complaining plainsong bursts the strawberry trees' for 'cantu querulae rumpent arbusta cicadae;' ''the murmur of the groves grows and grows' for 'et nemorum increbescere murmur.' . . . Chew should certainly achieve her aim of bringing the work to a wider readership. As she claims in her Introduction, 'Plain and simple, it is an American Georgics .' _--Anne Haward, The Joint Association of Classical Teachers Review, My graduate seminar members and I enjoyed Dr. Chew's rendering of the Georgics immensely. We were delighted and instructed by her playful blend of argots and typefaces, and by her artful blend of information in the notes. This translation opened the poem for me all over again--and it has long been among my favorites. Chew's translation offers a dazzling survey of musical styles in the poem. The fifteen of us send our thanks for her provocative and delightful achievement. ---Thomas A. Goodmann, University of Miami, My graduate seminar members and I enjoyed Dr. Chew's rendering of the Georgics immensely. We were delighted and instructed by her playful blend of argots and typefaces, and by her artful blend of information in the notes. This translation opened the poem for me all over again—and it has long been among my favorites. Chew's translation offers a dazzling survey of musical styles in the poem. The fifteen of us send our thanks for her provocative and delightful achievement. -—Thomas A. Goodmann, University of Miami, "A translation that is worthy of considerably more critical attention than it has received, not just because it contributes to what is now the well-documented and important phenomenon of classical literature being translated by women, but because it is a suggestive, challenging, vivid text, capable of creating Vergil anew for a new and wide range of demographics." --Fiona Cox, University of Exeter, in Classical Receptions Journal
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
871/.01
Synopsis
Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry--this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it--and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.
LC Classification Number
PA6807.G4C48 2002
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