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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... passage also , although he omits or contracts certain elements which are unsuitable in a poetic setting ( such as the elaborate treatment of situs which is found in Strabo's passage ) , the essential ethnographical format is intact ...
... passage also , although he omits or contracts certain elements which are unsuitable in a poetic setting ( such as the elaborate treatment of situs which is found in Strabo's passage ) , the essential ethnographical format is intact ...
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... passage on the old man of Tarentum , which has formal parallels to the laudes Italiae and the Scythian excursus , and which , like them , has a basis in ethnographical writing ( above , p . 37 ) , offers a viable alternative to these ...
... passage on the old man of Tarentum , which has formal parallels to the laudes Italiae and the Scythian excursus , and which , like them , has a basis in ethnographical writing ( above , p . 37 ) , offers a viable alternative to these ...
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... passages . Each of them has a basis in the ethnographical traditions indeed , they are the only passages in the poem to ... passage ; for , as far as we can tell , his account did not include a stage of primitive barbarism preceding the ...
... passages . Each of them has a basis in the ethnographical traditions indeed , they are the only passages in the poem to ... passage ; for , as far as we can tell , his account did not include a stage of primitive barbarism preceding the ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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