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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... FOURTH GEORGIC The problem with the Fourth Georgic ( and it is a problem which ultimately affects the entire poem ) rests in the relationship of the second half - the epyllion on Orpheus - to the first - the description of the bees ...
... FOURTH GEORGIC The problem with the Fourth Georgic ( and it is a problem which ultimately affects the entire poem ) rests in the relationship of the second half - the epyllion on Orpheus - to the first - the description of the bees ...
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... Fourth Georgic , it stands as Virgil's implication of man ( through the exemplum of the bees ) in the downfall of his works ( crops in Book 1 , livestock in Book 3 ) . In fact the entire fourth book can be seen as containing Virgil's ...
... Fourth Georgic , it stands as Virgil's implication of man ( through the exemplum of the bees ) in the downfall of his works ( crops in Book 1 , livestock in Book 3 ) . In fact the entire fourth book can be seen as containing Virgil's ...
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... fourth book ) see J. Griffin , " The Fourth Georgic , Virgil , and Rome " , GR 26 ( 1979 ) 61-80 . 2. The topoi identified by Dahlmann will be examined as they arise . 3. F. Klingner ( Virgils Georgica [ Zürich 1963 ] 243-244 ; Virgil ...
... fourth book ) see J. Griffin , " The Fourth Georgic , Virgil , and Rome " , GR 26 ( 1979 ) 61-80 . 2. The topoi identified by Dahlmann will be examined as they arise . 3. F. Klingner ( Virgils Georgica [ Zürich 1963 ] 243-244 ; Virgil ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
Copyright | |
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