Playing the farmer [electronic resource] : representations of rural life in Vergil's Georgics / Philip Thibodeau.

Introduction
Agricolae
Playing the farmer
Nobility in rustication
A protreptic to agronomy
To enchant readers
The reception of the Georgics in early Imperial Rome
Appendix 1. Vergil's economic status
Appendix 2. Early readership of The georgics.