Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical TraditionRichard Thomas shows how Greek ethnographical prose influenced the poetry of Virgil, Horace and Lucan and their portrayal of real and imagined Roman landscapes and environments. A later prose tradition is also identified in the work of Tacitus. |
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... result , not that it is aligned with barbarous lands ( which in prose ethnographies would be the result of such " deficiencies " ) , but rather that it is idealized . At the same time , Virgil's Tarentum is implicated . Horace proceeds ...
... result , not that it is aligned with barbarous lands ( which in prose ethnographies would be the result of such " deficiencies " ) , but rather that it is idealized . At the same time , Virgil's Tarentum is implicated . Horace proceeds ...
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... resulting indignation of nature . In fact , two details from the Servian commentaries combine to elucidate fully the ... result of such tampering . Man's interference with the forces of nature causes a violent reaction from these forces ...
... resulting indignation of nature . In fact , two details from the Servian commentaries combine to elucidate fully the ... result of such tampering . Man's interference with the forces of nature causes a violent reaction from these forces ...
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... result ( miratastque ) .62 The tree , moreover , is personified , so as to be witness to the results of man's activities . This seems not very different from the personification of the sea in the laudes Italiae , and its indignation of ...
... result ( miratastque ) .62 The tree , moreover , is personified , so as to be witness to the results of man's activities . This seems not very different from the personification of the sea in the laudes Italiae , and its indignation of ...
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