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The Writing on The Wall

The TLS Podcast

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The Importance of Handwriting

Virgil was born in Mantua and his first collection of poems is the pastoral poems the eclogs. His four books of the Georgics which are kind of a quasi-didactic poem. It's a kind of set of lessons about farming and agriculture but very much with an undercurrent that if you understand the very nature of farming it helps you think about how society is organised.

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