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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... instances : Caesar , B. G. 12.3 ; 14.2 ; Tacitus , Agr . 12.5 ; Germ . 5.1 . For a rhetorical expansion of this ... instance before Virgil where this is claimed as a regular feature of a purportedly real environment . Richter points ...
... instances : Caesar , B. G. 12.3 ; 14.2 ; Tacitus , Agr . 12.5 ; Germ . 5.1 . For a rhetorical expansion of this ... instance before Virgil where this is claimed as a regular feature of a purportedly real environment . Richter points ...
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... instance , Sallust views wealth as one of the chief contributors to Rome's decline ( B. C. 7.6 ) ; on this see D. C. Earl , The Political Thought of Sallust ( Cambridge 1961 ) 13-14 , 42-43 , 46 , 70 , 106 , 112 . 42. The attitude ...
... instance , Sallust views wealth as one of the chief contributors to Rome's decline ( B. C. 7.6 ) ; on this see D. C. Earl , The Political Thought of Sallust ( Cambridge 1961 ) 13-14 , 42-43 , 46 , 70 , 106 , 112 . 42. The attitude ...
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... instance : " sein Vorbild ist offenbar Sallust " . 14. He avoided completely the more common prose variants ( temperatio , temperatura ) . The other instance of temperies is at Ann . 4.55.4 , in the reporting of a letter describing the ...
... instance : " sein Vorbild ist offenbar Sallust " . 14. He avoided completely the more common prose variants ( temperatio , temperatura ) . The other instance of temperies is at Ann . 4.55.4 , in the reporting of a letter describing the ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
Copyright | |
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