Aproximación veterinaria a la obra del poeta latino Virgilio: 70-19 a.C. Nuevas aportaciones
- Ma Angeles Cantero Bonilla.
- Manuel Garcı́a-Espantaleón Artal.
- Joaquı́n Sánchez de Lollano Prieto.
- José Manuel Martínez Rodríguez. (coord.)
- Francisco Rojo Vázquez (coord.)
Editorial: Asociación Leonesa de Historia de la Veterinaria
ISBN: 978-84-09-65233-4
Año de publicación: 2024
Páginas: 343-347
Congreso: XLVI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL de la Asociación Mundial de Historia de la Medicina Veterinaria XXIX Congreso Nacional de Historia de la Veterinaria Septiembre 18 al 22 de 2024 León · España (29. 2024. León)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
The three works of Publius Virgil Maron (70-19 BC) considered authentic, the Bucolics (42-39 BC),the Georgics (37-30 BC) and the Aeneid (29-19 BC), show the poet's deep interest and inclination for thecountryside, nature and its creatures. Virgil's own epitaph records this vocation of the poet “...I have sungthe pastures, countryside and chiefs” and thus corresponds to his three works. Shepherds, peasants andfinally the Aeneid, the great epic of Rome, in which this attachment of the poet is also evident.The Georgics not only contain zootechnical advice, notions of breeding and selection, reproduction,feeding, identification and various pathologies of livestock, but also demonstrate a marked empathy and compassion for animals. These sentiments are expressed in hexameters with a simple beauty that isboth moving and consistent throughout the first and last of his works. Despite his status as a poet, Virgilhad his influence on later agronomic treatises and was a model for other authors as close to ourprofession as Columella, who declared his attachment to the poet.