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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... represent the conventional categories : crops ( 43 ) , vines , olives and fruit - trees ( 44-46 ) , honey ( 47 ) 65 and livestock ( 49-52 ) . Each , moreover , is produced , or acts , spontaneously ( inarata , 43 ; imputata , 44 ...
... represent the conventional categories : crops ( 43 ) , vines , olives and fruit - trees ( 44-46 ) , honey ( 47 ) 65 and livestock ( 49-52 ) . Each , moreover , is produced , or acts , spontaneously ( inarata , 43 ; imputata , 44 ...
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... represent , in a sense , opposite alternatives . The ideal has become negative , the untenable tolerable . Finally , however , both settings are flawed . The passage on the old man of Tarentum , which has formal parallels to the laudes ...
... represent , in a sense , opposite alternatives . The ideal has become negative , the untenable tolerable . Finally , however , both settings are flawed . The passage on the old man of Tarentum , which has formal parallels to the laudes ...
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... represented by the king - bee , then who throws the dust to settle their quarrel ( 86-87 ) ? Who , moreover , is ... represent an historical moment in the experience of the Roman people . We should also be wary of reading Virgil ...
... represented by the king - bee , then who throws the dust to settle their quarrel ( 86-87 ) ? Who , moreover , is ... represent an historical moment in the experience of the Roman people . We should also be wary of reading Virgil ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
Copyright | |
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