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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... precisely like a Sallustian ethnography . But , of course , they are not , for such groups must be excluded from Utopia if it is to remain pristine . " This was , in fact , precisely the fate of Iambulus and his companions , expelled ...
... precisely like a Sallustian ethnography . But , of course , they are not , for such groups must be excluded from Utopia if it is to remain pristine . " This was , in fact , precisely the fate of Iambulus and his companions , expelled ...
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... precisely formulated until long after Vergil was dead .... " If we have suggested that such sentiment may be more than the muttering of an anonymous wit , it is only to suggest that Virgil himself foresaw some of the failures which ...
... precisely formulated until long after Vergil was dead .... " If we have suggested that such sentiment may be more than the muttering of an anonymous wit , it is only to suggest that Virgil himself foresaw some of the failures which ...
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... precisely the same movement , and in part the same diction , as that employed by Virgil in his tricolon dealing with the agricultural activities of the old man of Tarentum : 16 cui pauca relicti iugera ruris erant , nec fertilis illa ...
... precisely the same movement , and in part the same diction , as that employed by Virgil in his tricolon dealing with the agricultural activities of the old man of Tarentum : 16 cui pauca relicti iugera ruris erant , nec fertilis illa ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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