God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil Tapa dura - 1998 - 1st Edición

Oxford University Press, 1998-06-11. hardcover. Good. Clean, flat pages with no markings. Solid binding. Dust jacket has minor scuffs with small crease on inside front flap.

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Oxford,, 1998. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Large 8vo. pp xvi, 252. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine. With a translation of Hesiod's Works and days by David Grene. ISBN: 0195117409

New York and London: Oxford University Press. Gray cloth with gilt lettering. Bibliography and index. With a translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by David Greene. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1998.

Oxford University Press, 1998. hardcover. very good/very good. Top edge foxed. Near fine otherwise.

Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0195117409 . In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Oxford University Press, 1998-06-11. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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