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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... material in such a way as to suggest that civilized Italy has crossed the limits imposed by nature . At the same time he has expressed severe reservations about empire and the Roman achievement . And finally , while ostensibly claiming ...
... material in such a way as to suggest that civilized Italy has crossed the limits imposed by nature . At the same time he has expressed severe reservations about empire and the Roman achievement . And finally , while ostensibly claiming ...
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... material . Again applying Dahlmann's topoi we can see the treatment of environment ( лερì τóлшν ) in Varro's account ( 3.16.12 , 15 , 23 ) . Also present are : είδος and ἰσχύς ( 3.16.18 , 19 ) , όπλισις and τρόπος τῆς μάχης ( 3.16.7 , 9 ...
... material . Again applying Dahlmann's topoi we can see the treatment of environment ( лερì τóлшν ) in Varro's account ( 3.16.12 , 15 , 23 ) . Also present are : είδος and ἰσχύς ( 3.16.18 , 19 ) , όπλισις and τρόπος τῆς μάχης ( 3.16.7 , 9 ...
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... material possessions , and a high sense of justice . From all of this it is quite clear that Posidonian ethnography must have been inextricably tied to Stoic ethics . Whether Lucan was influenced by Posidonius ' ethnography or by that ...
... material possessions , and a high sense of justice . From all of this it is quite clear that Posidonian ethnography must have been inextricably tied to Stoic ethics . Whether Lucan was influenced by Posidonius ' ethnography or by that ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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