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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... Odes the obvious fiction of such a stance was removed , as the Italian landscape , and particularly Horace's own environment , came into its own . The opening of Odes 1.17 depicts a setting that is solidly Italian : velox amoenum saepe ...
... Odes the obvious fiction of such a stance was removed , as the Italian landscape , and particularly Horace's own environment , came into its own . The opening of Odes 1.17 depicts a setting that is solidly Italian : velox amoenum saepe ...
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... Odes , and to exist unaided in the Sixteenth Epistle . Horace further elaborated the reasons for the protection of his environment : di me tuentur , dis pietas mea et musa cordi est . ( Odes 1.17.13-14 ) The poet's pietas and his musa ...
... Odes , and to exist unaided in the Sixteenth Epistle . Horace further elaborated the reasons for the protection of his environment : di me tuentur , dis pietas mea et musa cordi est . ( Odes 1.17.13-14 ) The poet's pietas and his musa ...
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... Odes 2.6 , chose it as the ideal place for his old age ( meae sedes ... senectae , 5 ) , 97 surely thereby associating not only his setting with that of Virgil , but also himself with Virgil's character ( Corycium ... senem ) . Specific ...
... Odes 2.6 , chose it as the ideal place for his old age ( meae sedes ... senectae , 5 ) , 97 surely thereby associating not only his setting with that of Virgil , but also himself with Virgil's character ( Corycium ... senem ) . Specific ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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