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Georgics on my mind.(Virgil's Georgics)(Book Review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20050601
Author:Russello, Gerald

Virgil's Georgics, translated by Janet Lembke. Yale University Press, 114 pages, $50

Translating Virgil these days is either eccentric or ... well, there really is no "or." It is eccentric. Virgil is the archetype for what were called in the heyday of the culture wars "Dead White European Males." After all, Publius Virgilius Maro was the author of the Aeneid, an explicitly pro-imperial epic that praised Roman arms and Rome's success in bringing law and civilization to the barbarians. Not the sort of thing, in other words, to garner support at an MLA meeting. Perhaps a new ...

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