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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... bees ' society . ' The present chapter will examine this description , then offer an explanation of the whole book in connection with the themes which have so far been traced in the Georgics . Dahlmann's claim that Virgil drew ...
... bees ' society . ' The present chapter will examine this description , then offer an explanation of the whole book in connection with the themes which have so far been traced in the Georgics . Dahlmann's claim that Virgil drew ...
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... bees terminology normally reserved for description of the world of men . 12 And finally he has falsely claimed that the bees are unique in some of their more human - like activities : " Solae ( 153 , 155 ) overlooks the wasp and the ant ...
... bees terminology normally reserved for description of the world of men . 12 And finally he has falsely claimed that the bees are unique in some of their more human - like activities : " Solae ( 153 , 155 ) overlooks the wasp and the ant ...
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... bees to men , and , more than this , as with the Scythians , so too with the bees , there is a suggestion of fragility , in that both societies are compelled to live beneath the earth as a protection against an adverse environment . A ...
... bees to men , and , more than this , as with the Scythians , so too with the bees , there is a suggestion of fragility , in that both societies are compelled to live beneath the earth as a protection against an adverse environment . A ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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