Os citas e a Cítia em Geórgicas 3.349-383 e em Tristia 3.10: permanência de parâmetros e intertextualidade

Abstract

Taking into consideration an intertextual approach, this paper looks into the presence of ancient ethnography in two Latin poems: the digression about the Scythians, in Virgil’s Georgics 3.349-383, and the elegy 3.10 of ovid’s Tristia. We analyze, in the above-mentioned texts, the descriptions of extreme environments characterized by a cold climate and the relation between these places and its inhabitants considered barbarian by the Romans. Besides, we explain how the image of foreign people is constructed in opposition to the Romans and to Rome, on the one hand by Virgil, in his praise of the Italian fields, on the other by ovid, in his negative depiction of the lands of exile, situated on the borders of the Empire.