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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... primitive hardiness , assigned either to individuals or to races . 53 In this context it is much like patientia , 54 an even more prominent term , and one which Virgil implicitly applied to the Ligurians ( adsuetum malo , 168 ) . This ...
... primitive hardiness , assigned either to individuals or to races . 53 In this context it is much like patientia , 54 an even more prominent term , and one which Virgil implicitly applied to the Ligurians ( adsuetum malo , 168 ) . This ...
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... primitive societies should be followed by the Romans , who had lost their more admirable and traditional moral qualities . On this , see below , Chapter 6 . 81. The adjective is only used one other time in a personal sense by Horace ...
... primitive societies should be followed by the Romans , who had lost their more admirable and traditional moral qualities . On this , see below , Chapter 6 . 81. The adjective is only used one other time in a personal sense by Horace ...
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... primitive simplicity , could be viewed favourably and in contrast to Rome , with her pursuit of luxuria and declining morality . And , ultimately , ambivalence towards one's own society , in the case of civilized Italy permitted even ...
... primitive simplicity , could be viewed favourably and in contrast to Rome , with her pursuit of luxuria and declining morality . And , ultimately , ambivalence towards one's own society , in the case of civilized Italy permitted even ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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