Alia's Georgics Page (Georgics 1.539-548)

By: Alia Nelson

Hi everyone! Welcome to my Georgics page. :)

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.

• 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.

• 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"