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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... concerned with the prose tradition . Moreover , our only concern for the moment is to establish that before the Augustan period 24 the diction , form and artistic potential of ethnographical writing had made the transition into Latin ...
... concerned with the prose tradition . Moreover , our only concern for the moment is to establish that before the Augustan period 24 the diction , form and artistic potential of ethnographical writing had made the transition into Latin ...
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... concerned with the thaumasia associated with Jason's ordeal , not with making any moral comparisons . 22. See ... concerns to two motivations , the utile or the honestum : " The individual may realise that the pursuit of his ambition may ...
... concerned with the thaumasia associated with Jason's ordeal , not with making any moral comparisons . 22. See ... concerns to two motivations , the utile or the honestum : " The individual may realise that the pursuit of his ambition may ...
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... concerns are less with physical detail and more with the mores and institutions of the inhabitants . As is apparent ... concerned with bees as bees , but if we claim the same for Virgil , we will not begin to understand his poem ...
... concerns are less with physical detail and more with the mores and institutions of the inhabitants . As is apparent ... concerned with bees as bees , but if we claim the same for Virgil , we will not begin to understand his poem ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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