Virgil’s ‘The Georgics’ is an ‘epic’ poem about labour and the land. I place the term epic into quotations however as the poem teeters on the line of wether it can be described as an epic, it not being a poem of a journey or battle with any hero figures, however is a work of Virgil’s and to an extent explores the journey of crops, livestock and the land, and how this fuels empires, conflicts and journeys. Therefore an agricultural journey is presented to enable the journeys of the great epics. 

‘The Georgics’ wasn’t the most engaging, what can one expect from a poem about farming of which I read as a comparison piece for a university assignment, whereas the fourth book with focus on bees and Aristaeus’ attempt at redemption for the indirect murder of Eurydice after attempting to rape her was interesting. Aristaeus however wasn’t particularly condemned for his actions by Virgil, which is a presentation I can’t say I particularly agreed with. 

Whilst not the most thrilling of topics, it was written well and offered many interesting points of analysis. Not quite up to the level of The Aenied but what is!