God and the Land

In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod''s Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society''s vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in th...