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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... urbem , rite cliens Bacchi somno gaudentis et umbra . ( Epist . 2.2.77-78 ) Somnus , and particularly the type associated with the country , and in antithesis to the city , is a prerequisite for the writing of poetry . Its presence in ...
... urbem , rite cliens Bacchi somno gaudentis et umbra . ( Epist . 2.2.77-78 ) Somnus , and particularly the type associated with the country , and in antithesis to the city , is a prerequisite for the writing of poetry . Its presence in ...
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... urbem . ( Lucr . 6.1138-1140 ) nec singula morbi corpora corripiunt , sed tota aestiva repente spemque gregemque simul cunctamque ab origine gentem . ( Geo . 3.471-473 ) sed si quem proles subito defecerit omnis nec genus unde 82 ...
... urbem . ( Lucr . 6.1138-1140 ) nec singula morbi corpora corripiunt , sed tota aestiva repente spemque gregemque simul cunctamque ab origine gentem . ( Geo . 3.471-473 ) sed si quem proles subito defecerit omnis nec genus unde 82 ...
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... urbem intraret , seu , quia contra destinaverat , speciem venturi simulans . et saepe in propinqua degressus , aditis iuxta Tiberim hortis , saxa rursum et solitudinem maris repetiit , pudore scelerum et libidinum , quibus adeo ...
... urbem intraret , seu , quia contra destinaverat , speciem venturi simulans . et saepe in propinqua degressus , aditis iuxta Tiberim hortis , saxa rursum et solitudinem maris repetiit , pudore scelerum et libidinum , quibus adeo ...
Contents
THE TRADITION | 1 |
THE LANDSCAPES OF HORACE | 8 |
FAILURE AND SUCCESS IN THE GEORGICS | 35 |
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