Georgics

Use this page as a template to create your own.

LEAVE THE FORMATTING AS IT IS--THE CHANGES YOU MAKE RIPPLE ACROSS THE SITE.

When you've accessed the site as an editor, you should see a pencil icon appear in the bottom right of the page.

• Click on that pencil to activate the editor menu bars [Insert | Pages | Themes] in the right of the screen.

• Choose "Pages" and click on "Georgics." Three dots should appear to the right. Click on those, and "add subpage" to make a new page for your workspace.

• Name it, using the convention Georgics Book.Lines. [My example will be Georgics 4.807-818]

• In your new Georgic Project page, begin to work.

• You may want to have two windows open, if you can, one to the new Project page and one to this page. OR, you can instead use the "insert" menu to insert a Text Box in your new project page; copy these directions into the text box, and work on the page that way, deleting the directions as you complete the steps.

• Use the "insert menu" to insert a text box right below the title bar, and add your name. Select the text, and use the text formatting functions that appear above the text box to add a link. There's a page for you as a "contributor"; link to that now.

• LATER, you can edit your "contributor" page to add brief information about yourself, and a photo if you care to include this. Remember that your "contributor" page will be viewed as part of your emergent professional presence; if you want help figuring out what to add, let me know. It might echo what you include on a LinkedIn profile, for example, or it might simply state that you're a student majoring in [English] at the University of Maryland and include a professional-style head shot.

• The "Insert" menu gives you choices for components to include in your project page.

• Start with the passage you'll include; you could type the relevant text into a Text box, or you could take a screen shot of the pdf or of the Google Book version and use one of the photo layouts. I wanted to be able to link to the text, so in my page, I typed the text as my starting point.

• Find your passage in another translation. Wikipedia lists a bunch. Here are a few with full text on line:

  • Fairclough, HR, for Loeb Classical Library (vol. 63-64). 1916.

  • Mackail, J.W., for Longmans, Green. 1910. (prose)

  • Rhodes, James, 1841-1923. On Project Gutenberg.

• Look for The Georgics in earlier printings via one of these UMD Libraries databases. If you want search tips, they are available via the video below.

  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)

  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

• Look at digitized versions in archival collections :

  • Dryden's 1697 edition, from the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC, "adorned with a hundred sculptures"

  • 1529 edition, in Latin, from UMD special collections with fabulous woodcuts. Georgics, see 104-268. Text is all in Latin; you're seeing Virgil's work in larger type for a block of text, surrounded by scholarly commentary in smaller type.

  • Check the Vatican's collection. Search was "Vergilius Georgica"

  • See what the Library of Congress has. Search was "Virgil Georgics"