Preferred Citation: Perkell, Christine. The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1989 1989. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft88700889/

 

M

Maecenas, 2 , 23

Maecenas and Caesar, 24 , 26 , 30 , 41

as reader of the poem, 26 , 30 , 41

metaphor, 18 n41, 161

Miles, G., 14 , 20 , 21 , 87

Milton, John, 5

Muses:

live in Greece, 61 , 65

sources of truth, 64 , 177

mystery, 18 , 139 -48

See also prayer

myth:

as metaphor, 18

new myths, 146 , 181 , 183

unitary vision of, 182 -83

See also Georgic poet, as maker of new myths; Georgics, function of myth in

 

Preferred Citation: Perkell, Christine. The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1989 1989. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft88700889/