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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Binder , G. Aeneas und Augustus , Interpretationem zum 8. Buch der Aeneis , Beitr . zur klass . Philol . 38 ( 1971 ) . Borzsák , I. " Von Hippokrates bis Vergil " , in Vergiliana , ed . H. Bardon and R. Verdière ( Leiden 1971 ) 41-55 .
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| Title | Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition Issue 7 of Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplementary volume Issue 7 of Proceedings: Supplement, Cambridge Philological Society Volume 7 of Supplementary volume - Cambridge Philological Society Issue 7 of Supplementary volume, ISSN 1364-6982 |
| Author | Richard F. Thomas |
| Publisher | Cambridge Philological Society, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0906014034, 9780906014035 |
| Length | 144 pages |
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