Download or read book Georgics written by Virgil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the second of two companion volumes which provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of Virgil's Georgics, is devoted to Books III and IV of the poem. Professor Thomas describes the Georgics as 'perhaps the most difficult, certainly the most controversial, poem in Roman literature'.