"he engages with the portrait of Paul in Acts, suggesting both that the more usual scholarly readings of Acts 21–28, which fail to recognize the limitations on Paul’s suffering in the custody settings, are reading Luke’s material about custody through the lens of the Pauline letters, and that most discussions of the portrait of Paul in Acts neglect Acts 21–28 as irrelevant at their peril." - Walton
I appreciate your links too. If you're interested in the Georgics, there's another text I've used that can normally be acquired fairly inexpensively. See https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/georgics-richard-f-thomas-virgil-georgics-vol-1-books-iii-vol-2-books-iiiiv-cambridge-greek-and-latin-classics-cambridge-university-press-1988-i-25-paper-995-ii-25-paper-895/023A2A24A5BF8EE27DAD084F52E42074
"Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox, And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine."
"Up then! if fat the soil, let sturdy bulls Upturn it from the year's first opening months, And let the clods lie bare till baked to dust By the ripe suns of summer; "
"For all expedients tried and travail borne By man and beast in turning oft the soil,"
"Or in ripe hour to fell the forest-pine."
"The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain; And when the parched field quivers, and all the blades Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed, See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls, Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones, And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields? Or why of him, who lest the heavy ears O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth First tops the furrows? Why of him who drains The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand, Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime Holds all the country, whence the hollow dykes Sweat steaming vapour?"
Thanks, Duncan. I appreciate the Perseus link and Virgil lines: what a poet! But he illuminates the Roman world along with telling an interesting story.
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/journal/toc.html
"he engages with the portrait of Paul in Acts, suggesting both that the more usual scholarly readings of Acts 21–28, which fail to recognize the limitations on Paul’s suffering in the custody settings, are reading Luke’s material about custody through the lens of the Pauline letters, and that most discussions of the portrait of Paul in Acts neglect Acts 21–28 as irrelevant at their peril." - Walton
geōrgika - agricultural (things)
I think this is an important read. I wonder if there are any other texts along these lines?
On the Farming texts, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoponici
https://www.jstor.org/stable/270676?seq=1
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567820?seq=1
Thanks for the Wikipedia link. I will have a look through these texts, to see how mistakes are repeated:-
https://www.jstor.org/stable/530002?seq=1
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3287089&journal_code=JSCS
I appreciate your links too. If you're interested in the Georgics, there's another text I've used that can normally be acquired fairly inexpensively. See https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/georgics-richard-f-thomas-virgil-georgics-vol-1-books-iii-vol-2-books-iiiiv-cambridge-greek-and-latin-classics-cambridge-university-press-1988-i-25-paper-995-ii-25-paper-895/023A2A24A5BF8EE27DAD084F52E42074
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0059%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1
"Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox,
And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine."
"Up then! if fat the soil, let sturdy bulls
Upturn it from the year's first opening months,
And let the clods lie bare till baked to dust
By the ripe suns of summer; "
"For all expedients tried and travail borne
By man and beast in turning oft the soil,"
"Or in ripe hour to fell the forest-pine."
"The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn
Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain;
And when the parched field quivers, and all the blades
Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed,
See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls,
Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones,
And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields?
Or why of him, who lest the heavy ears
O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade
Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth
First tops the furrows? Why of him who drains
The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand,
Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream
Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime
Holds all the country, whence the hollow dykes
Sweat steaming vapour?"
Thanks, Duncan. I appreciate the Perseus link and Virgil lines: what a poet! But he illuminates the Roman world along with telling an interesting story.
Another nice translation of the Georgics: https://www.theoi.com/Text/VirgilGeorgics1.html
Old Loeb edition.
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