Other Useful Resources (referenced in the commentary)

Abbe, Elfriede. 1965. The Plants of Vergil’s Georgics. Ithaca, NY. 

Conington J. and H Nettleship (rev. F. Haverfield). 1898. The Works of Virgil, with a commentary.London. 

Huxley, H.H. 1992. Virgil, Georgics I & IV. London.

Keightley, Thomas. 1847. The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil. London. 

Mynors, R.A.B. 1990. Virgil, Georgics. Oxford.

Page, T.E. 1898. P. Vergili Maronis: Bucolica et Georgica. London.

Papillon, T. L. and A. E. Haigh. 1891. Virgil, Buccolics and Georgics. Oxford.

Stuart, George. 1882. The Eclogues, Georgics and Moretum of Virgil. Philadelphia. 

Thomas, Richard F. 1988. Virgil, Georgics, Volume 2. Cambridge.

Wilkins, Henry Musgrave. 1874. The Georgics of Vergil. London.

Williams, R.D. 1979. Virgil, The Eclogues and Georgics. New York.

A Few Suggestions for Further Reading

Farrell, Joseph. 1992. Vergil’s Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic: the Art of Allusion in Literary History. Oxford.

Kronenberg, Leah. 2009. Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome Philosophical Satire in Xenophon, Varro and Virgil. Cambridge.

Perkell, Christine G. 1989. The Poet’s Truth: a Study of the Poet in Virgil’s Georgics. Berkeley.

Thibodeau, Philip. 2011. Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics. Berkeley.

Thomas, Richard F. 1999. Reading Virgil and his Texts. Studies in Intertextuality. Ann Arbor.

Volk, Katharina, ed. 2008. Vergil’s Georgics. Oxford.

Xinyue, Bobby and Nicholas Freer, eds. 2019. Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics. London.

 

Suggested Citation

Elizabeth Manwell, Vergil: Georgics Book 4. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Dickinson College Commentaries, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-947822-26-9. https://dcc.dickinson.edu/vergil-georgics/intro/preface