Narratives of pest in Virgil , Georgics III, and Lucretius, De rerum natura VI

<p>Two reports about catastrophic epidemics stand out in Roman literature. These are the report of the Athenian Plague at the end of the sixth book of Lucretius’s <em>De rerum natura</em> (<em>DRN</em>) and the Noric Plague at the end of the third book of Virgil’s <e...

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Main Author: Matheus Trevizam
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Coimbra University Press 2014-12-01
Series:Humanitas
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Online Access:http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/index.php/humanitas/article/view/1821