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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... verse ; the importance of the Epistles in particular seems to have been considered as minimal . For instance , the most recent book on the subject contains barely a mention of these poems . This is , I think , explained by the guise in ...
... verse ; the importance of the Epistles in particular seems to have been considered as minimal . For instance , the most recent book on the subject contains barely a mention of these poems . This is , I think , explained by the guise in ...
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... verses treat the surrounding seas ( the Adriatic and the Tuscan ) and the country's lakes ( Como and Garda ) . So far all is quite traditional ; Strabo , Pliny and Aelian all treated these categories , emphasizing the natural beauty of ...
... verses treat the surrounding seas ( the Adriatic and the Tuscan ) and the country's lakes ( Como and Garda ) . So far all is quite traditional ; Strabo , Pliny and Aelian all treated these categories , emphasizing the natural beauty of ...
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... verse . We can detect in the triumph of the old man's small plot over the large world of agriculture the metaphorical continuance of those Callimachean principles to which Virgil stated his allegiance in the Sixth Eclogue . Here too Geo ...
... verse . We can detect in the triumph of the old man's small plot over the large world of agriculture the metaphorical continuance of those Callimachean principles to which Virgil stated his allegiance in the Sixth Eclogue . Here too Geo ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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