Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition

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Cambridge Philological Society, 1982 - History - 144 pages
Richard 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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THE TRADITION
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THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE
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FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS
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