Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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... Greek — Cynegetica , consisting of four books on hunting , and Halieutica , consisting of five books on fishing — by Oppian ; ' Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium , a description in Latin prose of curiosities concerning animals , by Solinus ...
... Greek — Cynegetica , consisting of four books on hunting , and Halieutica , consisting of five books on fishing — by Oppian ; ' Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium , a description in Latin prose of curiosities concerning animals , by Solinus ...
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... Greek and Roman mythology and from Aesopic material . The conflict in which a knight overcame a dragon , a lion , or ... Greek and Roman mythology . One easily recalls to mind the Bib- lical accounts of Samson and the lion and David and ...
... Greek and Roman mythology and from Aesopic material . The conflict in which a knight overcame a dragon , a lion , or ... Greek and Roman mythology . One easily recalls to mind the Bib- lical accounts of Samson and the lion and David and ...
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... Greek models with the excellence of Greek poetry . Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with ...
... Greek models with the excellence of Greek poetry . Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with ...
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