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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Page 48
... intended . In a passage which is modelled on the form of ethnographical writing , and in which ( as is always the case with ethnographical studies ) the peoples of Italy are assigned various attributes of a permanent nature ( genus acre ...
... intended . In a passage which is modelled on the form of ethnographical writing , and in which ( as is always the case with ethnographical studies ) the peoples of Italy are assigned various attributes of a permanent nature ( genus acre ...
Page 56
... have it within the context of Virgil's description . Now if , as I think has been shown , Virgil intended this passage to be viewed as parallel to the other ethnographical sequences of the Georgics , 56 RICHARD F. THOMAS.
... have it within the context of Virgil's description . Now if , as I think has been shown , Virgil intended this passage to be viewed as parallel to the other ethnographical sequences of the Georgics , 56 RICHARD F. THOMAS.
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... intended his readers to see the two sequences as in some ways parallel . The chief similarity , and the one which gives meaning to the whole complex , lies in the onset of illness and plague , which occurs in both environments.48 In ...
... intended his readers to see the two sequences as in some ways parallel . The chief similarity , and the one which gives meaning to the whole complex , lies in the onset of illness and plague , which occurs in both environments.48 In ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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