Georgica
Virgil
Read by Malone
Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC. His poem is a rich admixture of allusion to that tradition: didactic poem, eulogium of Augustus, the neoteric epyllion about Orpheus, Epicurean philosophy as presented by his predecessor and model, Lucretius. Thomas Jefferson imagined his gentleman farmer tilling his fields with a copy of the Georgics between the handles of the plowshare. (Summary by Malone) (3 hr 23 min)
Chapters
| 01 - Liber primus, pars prima | 23:28 | Read by Malone |
| 02 - Liber primus, pars secunda | 23:33 | Read by Malone |
| 03 - Liber secundus pars prima | 24:26 | Read by Malone |
| 04 - Liber secundus, pars secunda | 26:11 | Read by Malone |
| 05 - Liber tertius, pars prima | 26:07 | Read by Malone |
| 06 - Liber tertius, pars secunda | 26:46 | Read by Malone |
| 07 - Liber quartus, pars prima | 26:12 | Read by Malone |
| 08 - Liber quartus, pars secunda | 26:45 | Read by Malone |