PERSONAE DOCTORIS IN VIRGIL’S “GEORGICS”

The paper considers figures of teachers (called personae doctoris by Servius) in Virgil’s “Georgics”. We believe that in Virgil’s poem, for the first time in the genre of didactic epic, not only the didactic poet himself, but also the gods and cultural heroes act as teachers: first of all, Jupiter and Aristeas. Juppiter acts as a teacher of mankind when he ends the Golden age so that people “do not become idle”. Aristaeus shows people the art of bugonia, which in turn was revealed to him by the gods. The fact that gods and men act as teachers is important not only as the Virgil’s genre innovation per se. It also brings us closer to interpreting the poem as a poem about knowledge and teaching. It also proves our previous conclusions that in the Georgics, labor and human existence, despite all obstacles, are not in vain, provided there is the favor of the patron and the instructions of the gods.