Vergil's Green Thoughts

The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the occasional symbolic set-piece. This volume joins the growing field of nature-centred studies of literature, looking head-on at Vergil''s plants and trees to reveal how fundamental they are to an understanding of the poet''s outlook on reli...