Abstract: Virgil's Georgics in the Soils Classroom. (ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings (2015))

266-10 Virgil's Georgics in the Soils Classroom.

See more from this Division: SSSA Division: Soil Education and Outreach
See more from this Session: Symposium--the Beauty of Soils: The Nexus of Soil Science and the Arts

Tuesday, November 17, 2015: 3:45 PM

Minneapolis Convention Center, 101 I

Daniel deB. Richter, Box 90328 - LSRC, Duke University, Durham, NC and Garrison Sposito, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Audio File Recorded Presentation

Abstract:

Virgil's Georgics narrates the relations of human beings and nature, of farmers and farmland, of people and soil. The poem speaks as forcefully today as when it was written and read aloud to Emporer Caesar Augustus. We describe why and how we bring the Georgics to our soils classrooms and we nominate Virgil as Poet Laureate of the Anthropocene.

See more from this Division: SSSA Division: Soil Education and Outreach
See more from this Session: Symposium--the Beauty of Soils: The Nexus of Soil Science and the Arts

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