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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... original thesis , and whose help in that as in other matters has been invaluable . Financial assistance from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation has helped to make this publication possible . INTRODUCTION THE TRADITION With its seeds ...
... original thesis , and whose help in that as in other matters has been invaluable . Financial assistance from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation has helped to make this publication possible . INTRODUCTION THE TRADITION With its seeds ...
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... original inhabitants , together with their distinguishing characteristics , is related . From this point , however , Virgil shifts ground - the pattern is exactly the same as at lines 145- 148 ( produce ) and 161-164 ( harbours ) – and ...
... original inhabitants , together with their distinguishing characteristics , is related . From this point , however , Virgil shifts ground - the pattern is exactly the same as at lines 145- 148 ( produce ) and 161-164 ( harbours ) – and ...
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... original inhabitants ( Greeks and Teleboeans ) , then immediately presents the present occupant : sed tum Tiberius ... insederat . The manner is close to that of Sallust's Libyan ethnography ( Africam initio habuere Gaetuli et Libyes ...
... original inhabitants ( Greeks and Teleboeans ) , then immediately presents the present occupant : sed tum Tiberius ... insederat . The manner is close to that of Sallust's Libyan ethnography ( Africam initio habuere Gaetuli et Libyes ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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