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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... theme to the description of the passing of the golden age , 1.125-146 ) , but his treatment goes no further than this . A notable exception is E. Burck's " Der korykische Greis in Vergils Georgica " , Navicula Chilonensis ( Leiden 1956 ) ...
... theme to the description of the passing of the golden age , 1.125-146 ) , but his treatment goes no further than this . A notable exception is E. Burck's " Der korykische Greis in Vergils Georgica " , Navicula Chilonensis ( Leiden 1956 ) ...
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... theme of the Georgics , it is highly relevant ; for we will recall the living conditions of the Scythians : ipsi in defossis specubus secura sub alta otia agunt terra , congestaque robora totasque advolvere focis ulmos ignique dedere ...
... theme of the Georgics , it is highly relevant ; for we will recall the living conditions of the Scythians : ipsi in defossis specubus secura sub alta otia agunt terra , congestaque robora totasque advolvere focis ulmos ignique dedere ...
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... theme in the second half of the Aeneid , then it will again be plausible to suggest that he has allusively undercut his more open claim that the golden age is in the process of being restored to Latium . At the beginning of the seventh ...
... theme in the second half of the Aeneid , then it will again be plausible to suggest that he has allusively undercut his more open claim that the golden age is in the process of being restored to Latium . At the beginning of the seventh ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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