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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... effects of winds on water , and the resulting condition of the inhabitants . First , those areas sheltered from the ... effects on precisely these two areas ( capiti ... alvo ) . Incidentally , in the previous Epistle , when discussing ...
... effects of winds on water , and the resulting condition of the inhabitants . First , those areas sheltered from the ... effects on precisely these two areas ( capiti ... alvo ) . Incidentally , in the previous Epistle , when discussing ...
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... effects of wind- exposure are there emphasized . 33 Yet it is also modified to suit the context of apiary description ( nam pabula venti / ferre domum prohibent 9-10 ) . Such detail , moreover , seems to be outside the technical ...
... effects of wind- exposure are there emphasized . 33 Yet it is also modified to suit the context of apiary description ( nam pabula venti / ferre domum prohibent 9-10 ) . Such detail , moreover , seems to be outside the technical ...
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... effects of mice , moles and the like provide a concrete example of the labor improbus connected with this age . 36. Here , then ( unlike in the laudes Italiae ) , is the real Italian countryside . 37. For the close connection between ...
... effects of mice , moles and the like provide a concrete example of the labor improbus connected with this age . 36. Here , then ( unlike in the laudes Italiae ) , is the real Italian countryside . 37. For the close connection between ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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