Hesiod and Virgil

narrated excursion through the furrows of the two poets lines To work the land as a form of living and to gain sustenance as a result of this work, this is the issue addressed by both Hesiod in Works and Days and Virgil in The Georgics. However, while each poet advocates the same lifestyle, each poet's true meaning lies in what they hope to achieve through an agricultural existence. For Hesiod, a bucolic existence is …

…similarity in content, the two poets did have very different viewpoints on the nature of things. Hesiod perceived the cultivation of land as a means for physical survival, independence, and as a link to the gods. Virgil perceived the very same lifestyle as a means for attaining understanding and thus, spiritual wholeness. To Virgil, nature was uncorrupted, free of the proceedings that cause a man to lose his connection to nature and therefore lose himself.