Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition
Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780906014035
Pub Date: December 1982
Price: £2.95   RRP: £15.00
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Richard 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.