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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... society through a genre traditionally reserved for descriptions of human societies . This leads to what should be an obvious point : the fact that the bee world is presented in the form of an ethnography compels us to view their society ...
... society through a genre traditionally reserved for descriptions of human societies . This leads to what should be an obvious point : the fact that the bee world is presented in the form of an ethnography compels us to view their society ...
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... societies . 20 Yet these are also features demanded by observation of the bees ' society , and it is , I think , erroneous to claim , on the basis of such detail , that they represent , for instance , " a simple folk living ideally ...
... societies . 20 Yet these are also features demanded by observation of the bees ' society , and it is , I think , erroneous to claim , on the basis of such detail , that they represent , for instance , " a simple folk living ideally ...
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... society ; in short , " The vigor , courage , endurance of body and spirit are linked with the hardy conditions of the simple life and its satisfactions " , 26 How , then , are we to see these lines , and how the clear contrast between ...
... society ; in short , " The vigor , courage , endurance of body and spirit are linked with the hardy conditions of the simple life and its satisfactions " , 26 How , then , are we to see these lines , and how the clear contrast between ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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