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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... Norden , Germ . Urgeschichte 111 n . 1 . 15. The main climatic feature of Pontus seems to have been its heavy fogs . Significantly , this same detail occurs in Menander's Samia , in a passage containing other ethnographical matter ...
... Norden , Germ . Urgeschichte 111 n . 1 . 15. The main climatic feature of Pontus seems to have been its heavy fogs . Significantly , this same detail occurs in Menander's Samia , in a passage containing other ethnographical matter ...
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... Norden , Die germanische Urgeschichte 111 , n . 1 ) , or Cato ( see below , n . 19 ) . 16. Strabo's account should be given precedence over the others , if we accept Geffcken's argument ( 382- 383 ) that it was drawn from Polybius and ...
... Norden , Die germanische Urgeschichte 111 , n . 1 ) , or Cato ( see below , n . 19 ) . 16. Strabo's account should be given precedence over the others , if we accept Geffcken's argument ( 382- 383 ) that it was drawn from Polybius and ...
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... Norden , and the commentaries on both the Agricola ( chiefly Ogilvie and Richmond ) and the Germania ( Much , and Anderson ) , cf. also E. Wolff , " Das geschichtliche Verstehen in Tacitus Germania ” , Hermes 69 ( 1934 ) 121-166 . 6 ...
... Norden , and the commentaries on both the Agricola ( chiefly Ogilvie and Richmond ) and the Germania ( Much , and Anderson ) , cf. also E. Wolff , " Das geschichtliche Verstehen in Tacitus Germania ” , Hermes 69 ( 1934 ) 121-166 . 6 ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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