Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition

by Richard Felstead Thomas

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906014034
• ISBN13: 9780906014035
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
• Length: 144 Pages