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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The Ethnographical Tradition Richard F. Thomas. 108 V. THE STOIC LANDSCAPE OF LUCAN 9 In coming to Lucan we leave behind the immediate development which has been traced so far . And yet , as is by now clear , the tradition of ...
The Ethnographical Tradition Richard F. Thomas. 108 V. THE STOIC LANDSCAPE OF LUCAN 9 In coming to Lucan we leave behind the immediate development which has been traced so far . And yet , as is by now clear , the tradition of ...
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... Lucan began , as he was virtually required to do , with a statement on the land's situs ( 411-420 ) , first in relation to the rest of the known world : tertia pars rerum Libye , si credere famae cuncta velis ; at , si ventos caelumque ...
... Lucan began , as he was virtually required to do , with a statement on the land's situs ( 411-420 ) , first in relation to the rest of the known world : tertia pars rerum Libye , si credere famae cuncta velis ; at , si ventos caelumque ...
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... Lucan's general familiarity with Virgilian poetry , it is reasonable to suggest that this constitutes a deliberate reminiscence . 18. On this , see Schroeder 33 . 19. So Ovid of the bronze age : itum est in viscera terrae , quasque ...
... Lucan's general familiarity with Virgilian poetry , it is reasonable to suggest that this constitutes a deliberate reminiscence . 18. On this , see Schroeder 33 . 19. So Ovid of the bronze age : itum est in viscera terrae , quasque ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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