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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... attitude towards these phenomena is difficult ( and , doubtless , no single attitude existed , as none does for us ) , it seems totally perverse to deny that some attitude towards such issues could be formulated by a troubled poet ...
... attitude towards these phenomena is difficult ( and , doubtless , no single attitude existed , as none does for us ) , it seems totally perverse to deny that some attitude towards such issues could be formulated by a troubled poet ...
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... attitude which pertains in most Virgilian scholarship , in regard to that poet's use of such description ( see above , p . 35 ) . 7. M. P. O. Morford , " The Purpose of Lucan's Ninth Book " , Latomus 26 ( 1967 ) 123-129 ; “ an unusual ...
... attitude which pertains in most Virgilian scholarship , in regard to that poet's use of such description ( see above , p . 35 ) . 7. M. P. O. Morford , " The Purpose of Lucan's Ninth Book " , Latomus 26 ( 1967 ) 123-129 ; “ an unusual ...
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... attitudes of Horace and Virgil to this complex . To these attitudes Lucan and particularly Tacitus , the most highly ... attitude , see Anderson ( above , n . 5 ) ix - xix . 7. Anderson ix . The discrepancy between the two halves of ...
... attitudes of Horace and Virgil to this complex . To these attitudes Lucan and particularly Tacitus , the most highly ... attitude , see Anderson ( above , n . 5 ) ix - xix . 7. Anderson ix . The discrepancy between the two halves of ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
Copyright | |
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