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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... poets no less than to other writers . This , then , is the background . We can now examine the poetry of Horace , Virgil and Lucan , and observe the extent to which , in the creation of their poetic landscapes , they drew from this ...
... poets no less than to other writers . This , then , is the background . We can now examine the poetry of Horace , Virgil and Lucan , and observe the extent to which , in the creation of their poetic landscapes , they drew from this ...
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... poetic application of the ethnographical tradition , we may demonstrate that in one area at least his poetry is neither haphazard nor without a high degree of consciousness of the possibilities contained in traditional literary material ...
... poetic application of the ethnographical tradition , we may demonstrate that in one area at least his poetry is neither haphazard nor without a high degree of consciousness of the possibilities contained in traditional literary material ...
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... poetry and prose ) of an enduring technical tradition , fixed in diction and form . In the process it has emerged that such material , originally outside the scope of the poetic experience , was , at the hands of learned poets ...
... poetry and prose ) of an enduring technical tradition , fixed in diction and form . In the process it has emerged that such material , originally outside the scope of the poetic experience , was , at the hands of learned poets ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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