Virgil as Orpheus

Virgil as OrpheusPresents a popular introduction to Virgil's Georgics for the general reader. Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet," and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian approach, this book draws on

and cultural forces that have influenced these alternately positive and negative opinions

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and to become an engaged and conscientious global citizen

agri-food supply chains

can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter – the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home

engineers and researchers with an interest in wearable communication devices and antennas

including the work of Gayatri Spivak

It was a chance find at a book fair that changed the course of events for her—sparking a passion for silversmithing

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’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’

Thomas Babington Macaulay was one of the great English historians of the nineteenth century

Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty brings together articles from the first volume of this cutting-edge journal – which is also the first of its kind in the field