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Placement, Gender, Pedagogy: Virgil's Fourth Georgic in Print*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Andrew Wallace
Andrew Wallace*
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University of Toronto
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Abstract

The article examines the narrative conclusion of the Georgics, in which the nymph Cyrene distills from Proteus' tale of Orpheus and Eurydice a set of practical instructions for her son to carry out. It argues that the tendency to minimize or ignore Cyrene's crucial role at the end of the poem is inseparable from Virgil's attempt to inspect the mechanics of instruction. Renaissance editors, commentators, and illustrators grappled uneasily with Virgil's attempt to make gender and placement integral components of Cyrene's pedagogy, and with the notion that successful instruction would culminate in a scene in which the teacher might still need to be present.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , Summer 2003 , pp. 377 - 407
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2003

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Footnotes

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Thanks to Nancy Lindheim, Elizabeth D. Harvey, Jeff Dolven, A.M. Keith, Theresa M. Krier, and Dana Dragunoiu for reading and commenting on an earlier version of this paper. Paul Grendler, Craig Kallendorf, and an anonymous RQ reader made a number of helpful suggestions. Research for this project was made possible by a fellowship from the Princeton University Friends of the Library. I thank the Princeton University Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections for permission to reproduce three illustrations from the Junius Morgan Collection of Virgil.

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