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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... particularly Nearchus , Onesicratus and Cleitarchus . Ethnography had an obvious appeal , particularly if we accept the theory that these authors incorporated Alexander's universalism into their accounts of his achievements . Also ...
... particularly Nearchus , Onesicratus and Cleitarchus . Ethnography had an obvious appeal , particularly if we accept the theory that these authors incorporated Alexander's universalism into their accounts of his achievements . Also ...
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... particularly condemned.77 Indeed , in lines 3-4 ( caementis licet occupes / Tyrrhenum omne tuis et mare Apulicum ) , although the activity implied is slightly different , it is difficult not to see Geo . 2.161-164 - the barriers imposed ...
... particularly condemned.77 Indeed , in lines 3-4 ( caementis licet occupes / Tyrrhenum omne tuis et mare Apulicum ) , although the activity implied is slightly different , it is difficult not to see Geo . 2.161-164 - the barriers imposed ...
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... particularly Tacitus , the most highly literary author in the tradition of prose ethnography , provide a commentary . The world of Augustus had passed , and with it the need ( and perhaps the desire ) for ambiguity in such matters . The ...
... particularly Tacitus , the most highly literary author in the tradition of prose ethnography , provide a commentary . The world of Augustus had passed , and with it the need ( and perhaps the desire ) for ambiguity in such matters . The ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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