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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... appears in Epode 16 , is examined by H. Reynen , “ Klima und Krankheit auf den Inseln der Seligen " , Gymnasium Beihefte 4 ( 1964 ) 99 ; it will be more prominent when we come to deal with that poem . 22. On this connection in ...
... appears in Epode 16 , is examined by H. Reynen , “ Klima und Krankheit auf den Inseln der Seligen " , Gymnasium Beihefte 4 ( 1964 ) 99 ; it will be more prominent when we come to deal with that poem . 22. On this connection in ...
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... appears here for the first time in poetry , was used by Sallust in his ethnographical survey of Libya ( B.J. 18.8 ) . But what of meaning of the passage ? I believe it has , in microcosm , the same function as the Scythian episode . In ...
... appears here for the first time in poetry , was used by Sallust in his ethnographical survey of Libya ( B.J. 18.8 ) . But what of meaning of the passage ? I believe it has , in microcosm , the same function as the Scythian episode . In ...
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... appears much like the Posidonian sapientes . And finally , further decline ( 328-332 ) , associated with hostile migrations to Latium . If the separate components of the speech are recognized , it becomes clear that there is no single ...
... appears much like the Posidonian sapientes . And finally , further decline ( 328-332 ) , associated with hostile migrations to Latium . If the separate components of the speech are recognized , it becomes clear that there is no single ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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