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The History of Virgil's Georgics
Melvin: The opening of Book 3 is interesting because it talks about a temple being built on a plane. He destabilises that very calm, placid, politically stable opening which seems to be suggesting an Italy unified and content under this new order. Diana: If anyone wants to see absolutely viscerally disgusting, horrific, grotesque description from Classical Antiquity, the end of Book 3 of the Georgics,. Melvin: I think that's a really powerful kind of seesaw image.