Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome

In this book Professor Kronenberg shows that Xenophon''s Oeconomicus, Varro''s De Re Rustica and Virgil''s Georgics are not simply works on farming but belong to a tradition of philosophical satire which uses allegory and irony to question the meaning of morality. These works metaphorically connect farming and its related arts to political life; but instead of presenting farming in its traditional...