catullan:

uncarnetmaisvirtuel:

Seen that post about Odysseus being naked when the fight with the suitors starts ?

Well, in the same vein, Vergil, in the first Georgic, literally says that, as a farmer, you should work naked when it’s too hot outside

(Plough naked, sow naked)

And I think that’s beautiful

reblogging this again because i discovered vergil here is reprising hesiod (works and days l. 391-392):

(sow naked, plough naked, reap naked)

and it’s beautiful because this is truly the intertextuality that matters