This volume and its companion volume devoted to the second half of
the poem provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of
Virgil's Georgics. Professor Thomas describes this work as 'perhaps
the most difficult, certainly the most controversial, poem in Roman
literature'. He presents the Georgics as the finished poem of
Virgil's mature years, approaching it not merely as a part of the
tradition of didactic poetry, but rather as a work which confronts,
behind its generic appearance, issues not essentially different
from those which inform the Eclogues and Aeneid. His introduction
and Commentary argue that Virgil's agricultural world, with its
successes, failures and ultimate limitations, represents the arena
for man's struggle with the realities of existence. Professor
Thomas pays particular attention to Virgil's allusion to and
reshaping of prior Greek and Latin poetry. The Introduction also
covers stylistic, metrical and structural questions. A subject
index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each
volume. This edition is aimed primarily at students at university
and in the upper forms of schools, but the range of its scholarship
means that it will be valuable to all classical scholars. The
Introduction contains material for non-classicists interested in
Latin literature.
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