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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... epode XVI , ... the use of vates in this context , political and yet with definite allusion to the Eclogues , shows that Horace had understood what Virgil meant ( when using vates in the Eclogues ) " . 74 The substitution of vates for ...
... epode XVI , ... the use of vates in this context , political and yet with definite allusion to the Eclogues , shows that Horace had understood what Virgil meant ( when using vates in the Eclogues ) " . 74 The substitution of vates for ...
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... Epode 16 , Horace demonstrated the connection , placing Virgil's spontaneous fertility ( nullo ... cultu , Ecl . 4.18 ) in the setting of the related , but distinguishable , Blessed Isles ( ubi reddit Cererem tellus inarata , Epode ...
... Epode 16 , Horace demonstrated the connection , placing Virgil's spontaneous fertility ( nullo ... cultu , Ecl . 4.18 ) in the setting of the related , but distinguishable , Blessed Isles ( ubi reddit Cererem tellus inarata , Epode ...
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... Epode 2 is not an oversight ; the nature of that poem is quite distinct from that of the ones which have been treated here . In particular , the final four lines set the poem apart from the poet's own landscape , and therefore outside ...
... Epode 2 is not an oversight ; the nature of that poem is quite distinct from that of the ones which have been treated here . In particular , the final four lines set the poem apart from the poet's own landscape , and therefore outside ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
Copyright | |
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