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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... detail the form of ethnography at its most finished stage , then to give an account of the development of the tradition . All of this will be brief . The term as it is understood in reference to Greek and Latin literature embraces both ...
... detail the form of ethnography at its most finished stage , then to give an account of the development of the tradition . All of this will be brief . The term as it is understood in reference to Greek and Latin literature embraces both ...
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... detail of the final claim ( salve ... Saturnia tellus ) . The first two lines are quite conventional , containing precisely the type of detail found in prose ethnographies.46 The racial diversity of the original inhabitants , together ...
... detail of the final claim ( salve ... Saturnia tellus ) . The first two lines are quite conventional , containing precisely the type of detail found in prose ethnographies.46 The racial diversity of the original inhabitants , together ...
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... detail that they change their pasture each year , and work the fields in common.79 Through these ethnographical ... detail refuting claims for approximation to golden age . apparently negative environment with redeeming detail suggesting ...
... detail that they change their pasture each year , and work the fields in common.79 Through these ethnographical ... detail refuting claims for approximation to golden age . apparently negative environment with redeeming detail suggesting ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
Copyright | |
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