Vergil's Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the Georgics

activities Aeneid Aeschylus agricultural amor Apollo appears Aratus Aristaeus associated attempt attitude Augustus becomes bees beginning believes blessed bronze Catullus child civil close conception context contrast course Cronus Cyrene depicted destroy deterioration develop Dikê earth echoes enjoyed Ennius envisions Epode Euhemerus example existence farmer father finally follows force Fourth Eclogue fourth Georgic gens gods gold golden age golden race Greek hand Hesiod's hive honey Horace's human indicates interpreted iron Italy Jupiter justice land later lived Lucretius mankind metallic golden age metallic myth mode moreover mortals mother nature noted once Orpheus Ovid particularly poem preceded Prometheus race of heroes reference reflects regna Roman Rome rule Saturnia Saturnus second Georgic seems shows significance silver race subsequent succession suggests symbolic tellus tended theme third Thracian toil tradition translation turn Vergil wealth Zeus