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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... civilized can be indicated by its agricultural activities . Caesar stated of the Britons occupying the interior of the island ( as opposed to the more civilized [ humanissimi ] coastal inhabitants ) : interiores plerique frumenta non ...
... civilized can be indicated by its agricultural activities . Caesar stated of the Britons occupying the interior of the island ( as opposed to the more civilized [ humanissimi ] coastal inhabitants ) : interiores plerique frumenta non ...
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... civilized agriculture is followed by some form of redemption . In chapter 2 we argued that the Corycian's environment was successful in terms which deliberately excluded civilized agriculture . We shall see that Lucan's intent is ...
... civilized agriculture is followed by some form of redemption . In chapter 2 we argued that the Corycian's environment was successful in terms which deliberately excluded civilized agriculture . We shall see that Lucan's intent is ...
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... civilized agricultural activity , and it was thereby distinguished from the civilized Italy of the laudes Italiae.3 ---- Perhaps the best commentary on this dichotomy , and in many ways the full potential of the ethnographical tradition ...
... civilized agricultural activity , and it was thereby distinguished from the civilized Italy of the laudes Italiae.3 ---- Perhaps the best commentary on this dichotomy , and in many ways the full potential of the ethnographical tradition ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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