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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... fact that Horace states that he will describe the situs of his farm ( its shape - forma - being a part of this ) , which is uniformly the first category of ethnographical writing . This leads to a further point . We have already ...
... fact that Horace states that he will describe the situs of his farm ( its shape - forma - being a part of this ) , which is uniformly the first category of ethnographical writing . This leads to a further point . We have already ...
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... fact emphasizes . This particular instance , especially with the second line , is unusually explicit , and all the more emphatic when considered with lines 116-117 , which form the opening frame of the passage : atque equidem , extremo ...
... fact emphasizes . This particular instance , especially with the second line , is unusually explicit , and all the more emphatic when considered with lines 116-117 , which form the opening frame of the passage : atque equidem , extremo ...
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... fact collect droplets of water between their legs , return them to the hive , and by fanning with their wings ventilate the hive . 39. Richter ( ad loc . ) is incorrect in referring to Varro , res rust . 3.16.37 as a source ; Varro was ...
... fact collect droplets of water between their legs , return them to the hive , and by fanning with their wings ventilate the hive . 39. Richter ( ad loc . ) is incorrect in referring to Varro , res rust . 3.16.37 as a source ; Varro was ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
Copyright | |
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